Adding Speech to Location-based Services

Abstract

The first generation of Location-based Services (LBSs) did not succeed on the market. In order to prepare LBSs of the next generation for the challenges of pervasive service execution in different situations (e.g. while walking on the street or while driving a car) the user interface must provide a second modality of interaction besides the visual interface. In this paper, we describe the challenges and a possible solution for combining LBSs with a spoken-dialogue user interface.

TalkingBadge demo

“…Nepper et al [5] suggested using speech for proactive (i.e. notrequested) execution of location-based services, for instance a tourist guide.…”