Abstract

The design and implementation of the AT&T Communicator mixed-initiative spoken dialog system is described. The Communicator project, sponsored by DARPA and launched in 1999, is a multi-year multi-site project on advanced spoken dialog systems research. The main focus of this paper is on issues related to the design of mixed-initiative systems. In addition to describing our architecture and implementation of the complex travel task, the paper reports on some preliminary evaluation results.

Date

2000

Authors

Esther Levin, Shrikanth Narayanan, Roberto Pieraccini, Konstantin Biatov, Enrico Bocchieri, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Wieland Eckert, Sungbok Lee, A Pokrovsky, Mazin G Rahim, P Ruscitti, Marilyn A Walker

Conference

INTERSPEECH

Pages

122-125