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An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
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Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems: Resources, Terminology and Product Evaluation
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Computer Speech and Language
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Usability of Speech Dialog Systems: Listening to the Target Audience
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The Voice in the Machine: Building Computers That Understand Speech
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SDCTD '12 NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future Directions and Needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data
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Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments
Introducing Spoken Dialogue Systems into Intelligent Environments
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This paper proposes a domain-independent statistical methodology to develop dialog managers for spoken dialog systems. Our methodology employs a data-driven classification procedure to generate abstract representations of system turns taking into account the previous history of the dialog. A statistical framework is also introduced for the development and evaluation of dialog systems created using the methodology, which is based on a dialog simulation technique. The benefits and flexibility of the proposed methodology have been validated by developing statistical dialog managers for four spoken dialog systems of different complexity, designed for different languages (English, Italian, and Spanish) and application domains (from transactional to problem-solving tasks). The evaluation results show that the proposed methodology allows rapid development of new dialog managers as well as to explore new dialog strategies, which permit developing new enhanced versions of already existing systems.