Voice interfaces are not popular since they are neither useful nor user-friendly for non-specialist users. In this paper, EUROPA, a new framework for developing spoken dialogue systems, is introduced. In developing EUROPA, the authors focused on three points : (1) acceptance of spoken language, (2) portability in terms of domain and task, and (3) practical performance of the applied system. The framework is applied to prototyping a car navigation system called MINOS. MINOS is built on a portable PC, can process over 700 words of recognition vocabulary, and is able to respond to a user's question within a few seconds.
Cite as: Sasajima, M., Yano, T., Kono, Y. (1999) EUROPA: a generic framework for developing spoken dialogue systems. Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999), 1163-1166, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-271
@inproceedings{sasajima99_eurospeech,
author={Munehiko Sasajima and Takehide Yano and Yasuyuki Kono},
title={{EUROPA: a generic framework for developing spoken dialogue systems}},
year=1999,
booktitle={Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999)},
pages={1163--1166},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-271}
}