Creating conversational interfaces for children.

Creating conversational interfaces for children is challenging in several respects. These include acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition (ASR), language and dialog modeling, and multimodal-multimedia user interface design. First, issues in ASR of children's speech are introduced by...

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Pubblicato in:	IEEE Transactions on speech and audio processing 10, 2 (2002).
Autore principale:	Narayanan, S.
Natura:	Articolo
Lingua:	English
Soggetti:	ASR. Wizard of Oz scenario. WoZ scenario. Acoustic decoding. Acoustic modeling. Acoustic modeling adaptation. Automatic speech recognition. Children. Conversational interfaces. Developmental changes. Dialog modeling. Dialog models. Language modeling. Language models. Multimedia personal agent prototype. Multimodal-multimedia user interface design. Semantic classification. Spectral characteristics. Speech signal. Spoken language. Temporal characteristics. Unified maximum likelihood framework. Vocal tract normalization algorithms. Voice-activated computer game.