Contributo in atti di convegno, 2012, ENG

Spoken Language Processing in a Conversational System for Child-Robot Interaction

Kruijff-Korbayová I., Cuayáhuitl H., Kiefer B., Schröder M. Cosi P., Paci G., Sommavilla G., Tesser F., Sahli H. Athanasopoulos G., Wang W., Enescu V., Verhelst W.

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayov?a, Heriberto Cuay?ahuitl, Bernd Kiefer, Marc Schr?oder DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab, Saarbr?ucken, Germany Piero Cosi, Giulio Paci, Giacomo Sommavilla, Fabio Tesser Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, ISTC, C.N.R., Italy Hichem Sahli, Georgios Athanasopoulos, Weiyi Wang, Valentin Enescu, Werner Verhelst Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology - IBBT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. of Electronics and Informatics, Belgium

We describe a conversational system for child-robot interaction built with an event-based integration approach using the NAO robot platform with the URBI middleware within the ALIZ-E project. Our integrated system includes components for the recognition, interpretation and generation of speech and gestures, dialogue management and user modeling. We describe our approach to processing spoken input and output and highlight some practical implementation issues. We also present preliminary results from experiments where young Italian users interacted with the system.

WOCCI 2012 - Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction Satellite Event of INTERSPEECH 2012, pp. on line–on line, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., September 14, 2012

Keywords

Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, Nao, Italian Children Speech Recognition, Italian Speech Synthesis

CNR authors

Sommavilla Giacomo, Tesser Fabio, Paci Giulio, Cosi Piero

CNR institutes

ISTC – Istituto di scienze e tecnologie della cognizione