While Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) still represent the most common way of operating
modern computing technology, Spoken Dialog Systems (SDS) have the potential to offer a …

1 Objectives Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) have great commercial potential as they
promise to revolutionise the way in which humans interact with machines. The advent of …

This article provides a global overview of the main aspects of current practice in the design,
implementation and evaluation of speech recognition components for Spoken Language …

This book chapter presents a detailed exploration of Conversational AI, offering insights into
its evolution, contemporary applications, and future prospects. The chapter begins by tracing …

Current spoken dialogue systems (SDS) suffer from a lack of user acceptance, which has
been repeatedly reported to be a result of high error rates in speaker-independent automatic …

Recently, global tech companies released so-called virtual intelligent personal assistants.
This thesis has a bi-directional approach to the domain of spoken dialog systems. On the …

Abstract An Intelligent Environment is a physical space that becomes augmented with
computation, communication and digital content, thus transcending the limits of direct human …

Research in dialog management and natural language understanding are both approaching
voice-based interaction. Coming from different perspectives they emphasize different …

Conversational agents are systems with great potential to enhance the human-computer
interaction in industrial settings. Although the number of applications of conversational …

Dialogue systems are a very appealing technology with an extraordinary future. Spoken,
Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogues Systems: Development and Assessment addresses …