Dictation systems, read-aloud software for the blind, speech control of machinery,
geographical information systems with speech input and output, and educational software …

Spoken language dialogue systems represent the peak of achievement in speech
technologies in the 20th century and appear set to form the basis for the increasingly natural …

Building an industrial spoken dialogue system (SDS) requires several iterations of design,
deployment, test, and evaluation phases. Most industrial SDS developers use a graphical …

The use of natural language interfaces in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) is
undergoing intense study through dedicated scientific and industrial research. The latest …

Building natural language spoken dialogue systems requires large amounts of human
transcribed and labeled speech utterances to reach useful operational service …

Abstract Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems provide interactive assistance to a user in
order to accomplish a specific task such as making a reservation at a restaurant or booking a …

Spoken dialog systems frameworks fill a crucial role in the spoken dialog systems
community by providing resources to lower barriers to entry. However, different user groups …

Sophisticated, commercially deployed spoken dialogue systems capable of engaging in
more natural human-machine conversation have increased in number over the past years …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the role of spoken dialogue in such environments.
It begins by describing and comparing the functions and technical characteristics of different …

This tutorial will give a practical description of the free software Carnegie Mellon Olympus 2
Spoken Dialog Architecture. Building real working dialog systems that are robust enough for …