Title :
Synthetic speech for real time direction-giving
Author :
Schmandt, Christopher M. ; Davis, James Raymond
Author_Institution :
Media Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
8/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors present an overview of the Back Seat Driver, a research prototype of a system to use speech synthesis as a navigational aid for an automobile equipped with localization equipment. They discuss the map database, the route-finding algorithm, repair strategies, and the discourse generator
Keywords :
automobiles; radionavigation; speech synthesis; Back Seat Driver; automobile; discourse generator; localization equipment; map database; navigational aid; radionavigation; real time direction-giving; repair strategies; route-finding algorithm; speech synthesis; Automobiles; Counting circuits; Databases; Displays; Laboratories; Prototypes; Real time systems; Roads; Speech synthesis; User interfaces;
Journal_Title :
Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
