Vocal interaction in collocated cooperative design

Abstract

Using vocal interfaces in complex applications leads to more intuitive interactions. At the University of Technology of Compiègne, we have built a collaborative environment from a large graphics table, interactive board and peripheral devices for supporting preliminary cooperative design. The environment support unique multimodal interaction through intelligent personal assistant agents and this paper details the architecture and implementation of their vocal interfaces, as well as the multiagent middleware, using two different multi-agent platforms.

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“…Moreover it has been shown that natural language dialogues in a professional context are not very difficult to implement (Barthès [26], Fuckner et al [27]). Finally, speech-to-text and text-to-speech programs have made enough progress to be now integrated in such kinds of interfaces (Jones et al [28]).…”