ISCA Archive ICSLP 2000
ISCA Archive ICSLP 2000

VODIS - voice-operated driver information systems: a usability study on advanced speech technologies for car environments

Petra Geutner, Luis Arevalo, Joerg Breuninger

This paper gives an overview over the progression and results of the VODIS (Voice-operated Driver Information Systems) project, a EU-funded project with participation of many industrial and academic partners within Europe. It describes the architecture and functionality of a driver information prototype system that is able to control telephone and audio devices, but also goes beyond these applications by enabling a potential user of the system to enter a destination within the navigation context by speech. The developed demonstrator allows the speaker-independent input of up to 70 predefined command words, phrases and even dynamically generated names (e.g. radio stations, phonebook entries) for hands- and eyes-free voice operation of the car-infotainment functions mentioned above. A prototype system has been realized in four European languages: German, French, English and Italian. User evaluations on driver level under realistic conditions have been conducted with this system and the results are presented in this paper.


doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.2000-829

Cite as: Geutner, P., Arevalo, L., Breuninger, J. (2000) VODIS - voice-operated driver information systems: a usability study on advanced speech technologies for car environments. Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), vol. 4, 378-382, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.2000-829

@inproceedings{geutner00_icslp,
  author={Petra Geutner and Luis Arevalo and Joerg Breuninger},
  title={{VODIS - voice-operated driver information systems: a usability study on advanced speech technologies for car environments}},
  year=2000,
  booktitle={Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000)},
  pages={vol. 4, 378-382},
  doi={10.21437/ICSLP.2000-829}
}