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.
Kruijff-Korbayova, I, Cuayahuitl, H, Kiefer, B, Schröder, M, Cosi, P, Paci, G, Sommavilla, G, Tesser, F, Sahli, H, Athanasopoulos, G, Wang, W, Enescu, V & Verhelst, W 2012, Spoken Language Processing in a Conversational System for Child-Robot Interaction. in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2012). 3rd Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2012), Portland, United States, 14/09/12.
Kruijff-Korbayova, I., Cuayahuitl, H., Kiefer, B., Schröder, M., Cosi, P., Paci, G., Sommavilla, G., Tesser, F., Sahli, H., Athanasopoulos, G., Wang, W., Enescu, V., & Verhelst, W. (2012). Spoken Language Processing in a Conversational System for Child-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2012)
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title = "Spoken Language Processing in a Conversational System for Child-Robot Interaction",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "human-robot interaction, integration, Nao, Urbi, italian children speech recognition, italian speech synthesis, voice activity detection, sound source localization, dialogue management, natural language generation, non-verbal behavior generation",
author = "Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Heriberto Cuayahuitl and Bernd Kiefer and Marc Schr{\"o}der and Piero Cosi and Giulio Paci and Giacomo Sommavilla and Fabio Tesser and Hichem Sahli and Georgios Athanasopoulos and Weiyi Wang and Valentin Enescu and Werner Verhelst",
year = "2012",
month = sep,
language = "English",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2012)",
note = "3rd Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2012) ; Conference date: 14-09-2012 Through 15-09-2012",
}