Spoken Dialogue Technology: Enabling the Conversational User Interface

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 90-169

  McTear, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dialogue management; Human computer interaction; Language generation; Language understanding; Speech recognition; Speech synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PORTALS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; USER INTERFACES;

CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACES; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0345331026     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/505282.505285     Document Type: Article

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