Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments

• Main Authors: Strauß, Petra-Maria (Author), Minker, Wolfgang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computational linguistics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
• Physical Description: XIII, 175 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781441959928

Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments describes spoken dialogue systems that act as independent dialogue partners in the conversation with and between users. The resulting novel characteristics such as proactiveness and multi-party capabilities pose new challenges on the dialogue management component of such a system and require the use and administration of an extensive dialogue history. In order to assist the proactive spoken dialogue systems development, a comprehensive data collection seems mandatory and may be performed in a Wizard-of-Oz environment. Such an environment builds also the appropriate basis for an extensive usability and acceptance evaluation. Proactive Spoken Dialogue Interaction in Multi-Party Environments is a useful reference for students and researchers in speech processing.