Review: Spoken Dialogue Technology

Dialogue Manager for Spoken Dialogue System: Review

A Spoken Dialogue System provide is a computer system able to converse with human with human voice. Dialogue Manager is a component of SDS that manages state of dialogue and dialogue strategy. This report presents the literature survey based on DM. The papers are based on various components of DM. The components of DM are dialogue representation, belief state representation, policy optimization...

Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design

Dialogue-Oriented Review Summary Generation for Spoken Dialogue Recommendation Systems

In this paper we present an opinion summarization technique in spoken dialogue systems. Opinion mining has been well studied for years, but very few have considered its application in spoken dialogue systems. Review summarization, when applied to real dialogue systems, is much more complicated than pure text-based summarization. We conduct a systematic study on dialogue-system-oriented review a...

An integrated system for teaching spoken dialogue systems technology

Spoken language systems are highly complex and teaching of students in this subject matter and in the underlying technologies could benefit greatly from instructional software. The aim of this work has been to give students hands-on experience via a fully functioning spoken dialogue system as a teaching aid. This dialogue system was built using our toolkit for spoken language technology as a de...

Using the CSLU toolkit for practicals in spoken dialogue technology

Spoken language interaction with computers has become a practical possibility as a result of recent technological developments in the speech sciences. This paper reports on the use of CSLU’s RAD (Rapid Application Developer) to provide practical experience for undergraduate students in the specification and development of spoken dialogue systems. Two groups of students were involved. The first ...