Spoken command of large mobile robots in outdoor environments

2010 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 306-311

  Chuangsuwanich, Ekapol ^a   Cyphers, Scott ^a   Glass, James ^a   Teller, Seth ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Modulation frequency; Real time speech recognition; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SYSTEMS; DESIGN GOAL; FALSE ALARM RATE; MODULATION FREQUENCY; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PUSH-TO-TALK; REAL-TIME SPEECH RECOGNITION; ROBOT INTERACTIONS; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH SYSTEMS; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTORS;

DETECTORS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MACHINE DESIGN; MACHINERY; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MICROPHONES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79951799250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2010.5700869     Document Type: Conference Paper

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