About Development and Innovation of the Slovak Spoken Language Dialogue System

Abstract

The research and development of the Slovak spoken language dialogue system (SLDS) is described in the paper. The dialogue system is based on the DARPA Communicator architecture and was developed in the period from July 2003 to June 2006. It consists of the Galaxy hub and telephony, automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, backend, transport and VoiceXML dialogue management and automatic evaluation modules. The dialogue system is demonstrated and tested via two pilot applications, „Weather Forecast“ and „Public Transport Timetables“. The required information is retrieved from Internet resources in multi-user mode through PSTN, ISDN, GSM and/or VoIP network. Some innovation development has been performed since 2006 which is also described in the paper.

Keywords

• Dialogue System
• Speech Recognition
• VoiceXML
• Text-To-Speech
• Dialogue Management