Abstract
Developing machines that listen and speak has intrigued scientists and engineers for decades. The first speech recognition system was constructed at Bell Laboratories in 1952 by three scientists and was able to recognize sequences of isolated digits of a single speaker (Davies and Balashek, 1952). Since then and after decades of visibly accelerating development and improvement, spoken language technology has become part of our everyday lives. Nowadays, we are able to control our navigation system by voice, perform Internet voice search with our mobile phone, and navigate through complex customer self-service systems via telephone. The day our homes will become dialog partners enabled through spoken dialog technology are not too far off.
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Interaction patterns should not be confused with “interaction design patterns” (Alexander et al. 1977; Gamma et al. 1995; Bezold and Minker 2011), which depict reusable templates in software engineering.
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Later we will use more data from this domain for the development of statistical prediction models. We will denote this corpus as LG-FIELD.
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Our approach to accomplish this is described in Ultes et al. (2011b), but is not further discussed at this point.
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Age recognition is discussed in Schmitt et al. (2010d).
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Schmitt, A., Minker, W. (2013). Introduction. In: Towards Adaptive Spoken Dialog Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4593-7_1
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