Front-End for the Oral Control of Applications in Windows Environments

Author

Sainz, Inaki ; Navas, Eva ; Sanchez, Javier ; Luengo, Iker ; Hernáez, Inmaculada

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Basque Country Univ.

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

1020

Lastpage

1023

Abstract

This paper presents the development of an oral interface to control any Windows application by means of speech, providing a user-friendly interface. This front-end is fully configurable using plain text files, being able to manage any program with a graphic environment that works under Windows Operating System, using functions from the Windows API. Hidden Markov models provide the speech recognition ability, using recursive training of triphone models built with a SpeechDat database. The text to speech system uses an MBROLA based algorithm and it is integrated in a dynamic library. The application is focused on customers with some vision or movement handicap and it is designed to be used in Basque language

Keywords

hidden Markov models; human computer interaction; natural languages; speech recognition; speech-based user interfaces; Basque language; MBROLA algorithm; SpeechDat database; Windows API; Windows Operating System; Windows application control; Windows graphic environment; application programming interface; dynamic library; hidden Markov model; multiband resynthesis overlap add; oral control interface; speech recognition technology; text-to-speech system; triphone model; user-friendly interface; Application software; Environmental management; Graphics; Hidden Markov models; Humans; Natural languages; Operating systems; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Telecommunication computing; Application Control; Speech Technologies; Windows Application;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer as a Tool, 2005. EUROCON 2005.The International Conference on

Conference_Location

Belgrade

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0049-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURCON.2005.1630122

Filename

1630122