A robust system for human-machine dialogue in telephony-based applications

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 101-111

  Albesano, D ^a   Baggia, P ^a   Danieli, M ^a   Gemello, R ^a   Gerbino, E ^a   Rullent, C ^a  

^a CSELT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Language modeling; Robust parsing; Speech recognition; Task oriented spoken dialogue

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ROBUST PARSING; TASK ORIENTED SPOKEN DIALOGUE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031370224     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02208822     Document Type: Article

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