EUROSPEECH 2003 - INTERSPEECH 2003 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Geneva, Switzerland September 1-4, 2003

Development of a Bilingual Spoken Dialog System for Weather Information Retrieval

Janez Zibert (1), Sanda Martincic-Ipsic (2), Melita Hajdinjak (1), Ivo Ipsic (2), France Mihelic (1)

(1) University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
(2) University of Rijeka, Croatia

In this paper we present a strategy, current activities and results of a joint project in designing a spoken dialog system for Slovenian and Croatian weather information retrieval. We give a brief description of the system design, of the procedures we have performed in order to obtain domain specific speech databases, monolingual and bilingual speech recognition experiments and WOZ simulation experiments. Recognition results for Croatian and Slovenian speech are presented, as well as bilingual speech recognition results when using common acoustic models. We propose two different approaches to the language identification problem and show recognition results for the both acoustically similar languages. Results of dialog simulations, performed in order to gain user behaviors when accessing a spoken dialog system, are also presented.

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Bibliographic reference.  Zibert, Janez / Martincic-Ipsic, Sanda / Hajdinjak, Melita / Ipsic, Ivo / Mihelic, France (2003): "Development of a bilingual spoken dialog system for weather information retrieval", In EUROSPEECH-2003, 1917-1920.