An application of connected speech to the cartography task

This paper summarizes initial development of a system for visual and verbal data acquisition in the cartography task. Visual input and output is provided by a graphics tablet in conjunction with a graphic display terminal. Verbal input consists of sequences of commands and map feature descriptors which are recognized by the Harpy speech recognition system. An important and interesting aspect of this research involves the design and analysis of vocabularies and grammars for tasks of this nature.