An Architecture for Voice-Enabled Interfaces over Local Wireless Networks

Lots of industrial tasks need contacts between operators and a central Information Management System. Permanent contact creates a more effective and efficient workforce with a direct update in the central Information Management System. In the case of mobile operators (e.g. warehouses or picking operators), this can be realized thanks to electronic remote devices connected to a private wireless network. Especially in mobile environment, voice often appears as a natural way to interface with computers. Indeed, a voice-enabled interface (understand voice recognition, dialogue management and speech synthesis) can improve user’s ergonomics, as hands and eyes can still be focused on the current task therefore improving the productivity by avoiding the necessary amount of time of extra manipulation as form-filling, data encoding, etc. In this paper, we propose a generic framework for the implementation of efficient mobile and distributed voice-enabled interfaces.