It is well known that a speech dialog system can be regarded as an integration of a speech interface which runs in the front end and a dialog controller which runs in the back end. The former is obviously language-dependent while the later could be language-independent relatively. This paper describes an approach to constructing a multilingual spoken dialog system. In this approach, we extended a dialog controller for Japanese to a language-independent one and combined it with a Chinese speech interface. Experimental result shows that the proposed approach is effective in constructing quickly a multilingual-supporting dialog system using a common dialog controller.

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Bibliographic reference.  Xu, Yunbiao / Araki, Masahiro / Niimi, Yasuhisa (2001): "A multilingual-supporting dialog system using a common dialog controller", In EUROSPEECH-2001, 1283-1286.