Title :
A design environment for acoustic interfaces to databases
Author :
Feldes, Stefan ; Fries, Georg ; Hagen, Eli ; Wirth, Antje
Author_Institution :
Deutsche Telekom Berkom, Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract :
We present a novel service creation environment for spoken dialogue interfaces to databases. On the dialogue level, all procedural information has been hidden in the dialogue manager such that the application designer is relieved of the exact specification of individual dialogue steps and can work purely declaratively. The declarations comprise an application´s tasks and the parameters needed from the user. On the linguistic level, the designer is requested to provide application specific templates, words, and phrases. A speech generator and a speech interpreter supply the deep linguistic knowledge that is necessary to produce the system´s announcements and to recognize and interpret the user´s utterances
Keywords :
database management systems; query processing; speech-based user interfaces; user interface management systems; TESADIS; acoustic interfaces; service creation environment; specification; speech generator; speech interpreter; spoken dialogue interfaces; Costs; Databases; Graphical user interfaces; History; Information management; Knowledge management; Libraries; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications, 1998. IVTTA '98. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE 4th Workshop
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5028-6
DOI :
10.1109/IVTTA.1998.727702