Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems: Resources, Terminology and Product Evaluation / Edition 1

by Dafydd Gibbon, Inge Mertins, Roger K. Moore

Overview

Dictation systems, read-aloud software for the blind, speech control of machinery, geographical information systems with speech input and output, and educational software with ‘talking head' artificial tutorial agents are already on the market. The field is expanding rapidly, and new methods and applications emerge almost daily. But good sources of systematic information have not kept pace with the body of information needed for development and evaluation of these systems. Much of this information is widely scattered through speech and acoustic engineering, linguistics, phonetics, and experimental psychology.
The Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems presents current and developing best practice in resource creation for speech input/output software and hardware. This volume brings experts in these fields together to give detailed ‘how to' information and recommendations on planning spoken dialogue systems, designing and evaluating audiovisual and multimodal systems, and evaluating consumer off-the-shelf products.
In addition to standard terminology in the field, the following topics are covered in depth:

• How to collect high quality data for designing, training, and evaluating multimodal and speech dialogue systems;
• How to evaluate real-life computer systems with speech input and output;
• How to describe and model human-computer dialogue precisely and in depth.

Also included:

• The first systematic medium-scale compendium of terminology with definitions.

This handbook has been especially designed for the needs of development engineers, decision-makers, researchers, and advanced level students in the fields of speech technology, multimodal interfaces, multimedia, computational linguistics, and phonetics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792379041
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	08/31/2000
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #565
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

1 Representation and annotation of dialogue.- 2 Audio-visual and multimodal speech-based systems.- 3 Consumer off-the-shelf (COTS) product and service evaluation.- 4 Terminology for spoken language systems.- 5 Reference materials.- Bibliographical references.- A SAMPA and X-SAMPA phonetic symbols.- B The EAGLET term database.- B.1 Introduction.- B.2 EAGLET termbank (abridged).- List of abbreviations.- CD—ROM disclaimer.

Editorial Reviews

A companion to (Gibbon et al. 1997), this volume addresses decision-makers, developers, and advanced students in the fields of speech technology, multimodal interfaces, multimedia, computational linguistics, and phonetics. Presents current and developing best practice in resource creation for speech input/output software and hardware. The editors, in consultation with academics from around the world, give detailed how-to instructions on planning spoken dialogue systems, designing and evaluating audiovisual and multimodal systems, and evaluating consumer off-the-shelf products. The book includes a systematic medium scale compendium of terminology with definitions. The included CD-ROM contains a hypertext version of the book. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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