This paper describes ongoing development work on the spoken dialogue system, WAXHOLM, providing information on boat traffic in the Stockholm archipelago. The dialogue control and the natural language parser are implemented in an integrated, knowledge-based probabilistic language model. The recognition process is based on neural nets, A* lexical search, and a candidate reordering module. Speech synthesis for spoken response has been enhanced by the display of a synthetic, animated face. Application-specific data have been collected with the help of Wizard-of-Oz techniques.
Cite as: Bertenstam, J., Beskow, J., Blomberg, M., Carlson, R., Elenius, K., Granström, B., Gustafson, J., Hunnicutt, S., Högberg, J., Lindell, R., Neovius, L., Nord, L., Serpa-Leitao, A.d., Ström, N. (1995) The waxholm system - a progress report. Proc. ESCA Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, 81-84
@inproceedings{bertenstam95_sds,
author={Johan Bertenstam and Jonas Beskow and Mats Blomberg and Rolf Carlson and Kjell Elenius and Björn Granström and Joakim Gustafson and Sheri Hunnicutt and Jesper Högberg and Roger Lindell and Lennart Neovius and Lennart Nord and Antonio de Serpa-Leitao and Nikko Ström},
title={{The waxholm system - a progress report}},
year=1995,
booktitle={Proc. ESCA Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems},
pages={81--84}
}