The Dynamic Lexicon

An Exemplary Interaction with SmartKom

“…Hence, those modules have to be informed about possible words the user or the system might utter when presenting or addressing the titles, actors and other information. In SmartKom, the dedicated lexicon module [5] creates the phonetic transcriptions for new terms-since titles are often in foreign languages it has to provide pronunciation variants-and propagates the added lexicon entries to the speech modules. The user query results in an information display that contains only movies with Arnold Schwarzenegger, as shown in Fig.…”