Applying speech interface to Mahjong game

Author

Zhang, Jie ; Zhao, Ji ; Bai, Shuanhu ; Huang, Zhiyong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2004

fDate

5-7 Jan. 2004

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

92

Abstract

Computer game development has raised many challenges to the computer science. Among them, human computer interaction and networking are two fundamental aspects. We propose a multi-player game framework with a speech interface based on existing speech synthesis and recognition engines. To study this framework, we have implemented a popular and historic Chinese game Mahjong. We describe the implementation by its speech interface, networking, and graphics user interface (GUI). We conducted experiments over the Internet. Four Pentium III 450 MHz PCs (128MB RAM and 4GB hard disk) were used with one PC taking the roles as the server and client at the same time. The speech interface has proven to enhance the human computer interaction as reported by the participants.

Keywords

Internet; computer games; graphical user interfaces; human computer interaction; speech processing; speech recognition; speech synthesis; Internet; Mahjong game; computer games; computer networking; computer science; graphical user interface; human-computer interaction; multimedia modeling; speech interface; speech recognition; speech synthesis; Computer graphics; Computer science; Graphical user interfaces; Human computer interaction; Internet; Personal communication networks; Search engines; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Modelling Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 10th International

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2084-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MULMM.2004.1264971

Filename

1264971