Olympus: an open-source framework for conversational spoken language interface research
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We introduce Olympus, a freely available framework for research in conversational interfaces. Olympus’ open, transparent, flexible, modular and scalable nature facilitates the development of large-scale, real-world systems, and enables research leading to technological and scientific advances in conversational spoken language interfaces. In this paper, we describe the overall architecture, several systems spanning different domains, and a number of current research efforts supported by Olympus.
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