Abstract Currently, most spoken dialogue systems only deal with the interaction between the system and one speaker. In some situations, interactions may occur between several speakers and the system. New functions and improvements need to be made in order to handle a multi-user situation. Studies of the human computer interaction system that involve multiple users are in their initial stages and any papers, lectures or studies on the subject are very limited. For these reasons we are motivated to conduct a further study on multi-speaker dialogue systems. In this chapter, the interactions between the multiple speakers and the system are classified into three types: independent, cooperative, and conflicting interactions. An algorithm for the multi-speaker dialogue management is proposed to determine the interaction type, and to keep the interaction going smoothly. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can properly handle the interaction that occurs in a multi-speaker dialogue system, and provides useful vehicular information to the speakers.
Experiences of Multi-Speaker Dialogue System for Vehicular Information Retrieval
2005-01-01
17 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English