Building 10,000 spoken dialogue systems

Speech-graphics dialogue systems

“…As we struggled through integrating each of these new modules and discovering their dependencies on other parts of the existing system, we found ourselves wishing for a standardized framework--a communication and architectural infrastructure for voice dialogue systems. And while the CSLU Toolkit (Sutton et al, 1996) already promises rapid development of voice system applications, it and other commercial systems rely primarily on finite state models of dialogne, which may be insufficient for modeling complex domains or posing some research questions. A complete set of dialogue application programmer inteffaces (APIs) would reduce system development time, lead to increased resource sharing and allow more accurate system and component evaluation (Fulkerson and Kehn, 1997).…”

Towards a PURE spoken dialogue system for information access

“…Graph-based approaches require the entire dialogue state transition graph for an application to be pre-specified. Several dialogue design toolkits are available to assist developers in this task, such as the SLUrp toolkit (Sutton et al, 1996), SpeechWorks toolkit (Applied Language Technologies, 1997), or DDL-tool (Baekgaard, 1996). It is often cumbersome and sometimes impossible to pre-specify such a dialogue graph.…”

Javox

“…Previous systems to assist in the development of spoken-langnage systems (SLSs) have focused on building stand-alone, customized applications, such as (Sutton et al, 1996) and (Pargellis et al, 1999). The goal of the JAVOX toolkit is to speech-enable traditional desktop applications -this is similar to the goals of the MELISSA project (Schmidt et al, 1998).…”