Estimating Spoken Dialog System Quality with User Models

• Main Author: Engelbrecht, Klaus-Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services,
• Subjects: Engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Acoustical engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Engineering Acoustics.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

Spoken dialog systems have the potential to offer highly intuitive user interfaces, as they allow systems to be controlled using natural language. However, the complexity inherent in natural language dialogs means that careful testing of the system must be carried out from the very beginning of the...