Biennial on Digital Signal Processing for In-Vehicle and Mobile Systems Sesimbra, Portugal September 2-3, 2005

Hands-free in-car speech interaction in the VICO project

Marco Matassoni, Maurizio Omologo, Piergiorgio Svaizer

ITC-irst, Povo (TN), Italy

This paper presents goals, system architecture and main results of VICO (Virtual Intelligent CO-driver), a project aiming at the development of an intelligent conversational agent enabling natural hands-free interaction between humans and digital devices in the car. The underlying design principles and system framework are given, as well as an overview of the components of the final prototype working in a real environment. Finally the results of the evaluation phase are discussed.

Bibliographic reference.  Matassoni, Marco / Omologo, Maurizio / Svaizer, Piergiorgio (2005): "Hands-free in-car speech interaction in the VICO project", In DSP-in-V-2005, paper A1-3 (abstract).