On developing a voice-enabled interface for interactive tour-guide robots

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 599-616

  Drygajlo, Andrzej ^a   Prodanov, Plamen J ^a   Ramel, Guy ^a   Meisser, Mathieu ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dialogue management; Human robot interaction; Mobile tour guide robot; Noise robust speech synthesis and recognition; Voice enabled interface

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; HUMAN ROBOT VOICE COMMUNICATION; INTERACTIVE TOUR GUIDE ROBOTS; VOICE ENABLED INTERFACE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0141509015     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855303769156974     Document Type: Article

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