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Spoken dialog systems are presently used widely. However, some users avoid using them because of poor usability and unattractiveness. In this study, we develop a system that captures the user's movement and estimates the user state. This function is incorporated into the existing spoken dialog system to build a multimodal dialog system. In the experiments, the recognition performance of body motion...
Captioning lecture speech is very useful for better understanding. However, it takes high cost to do real-time manual captioning or even if we employ automatic speech recognition system and human correction together. In this paper, we propose a method to reduce a cost for human correction as a prerequisite of a framework for captioning using automatic speech recognition system. Specifically, we investigate...
Semantic techniques can be utilized for understanding the meaning of sentences in a text. We can refer the abstract of some document in order to understand its contents very quickly. But the case of video data is different. We cannot review the whole video file in a short time period just like the text document case. This paper proposes the design of video abstract extraction. In order to generate...
In this paper, we describe the development of a spoken dialogue system based on PRINTEPS architecture. This spoken dialogue system is composed of five modules (speech recognition, language understanding, dialogue management, response generation, speech synthesis). In PRINTEPS, when calling the spoken dialogue system, system developers specify the small-scale dialogue goal. The system performs a dialogue...
Sheet type transformable robots are robots, which can transform their shape from planar sheet to three dimensional structure. They can form several structures like Origami, a Japanese paper art We propose transformable plate wares as another application of sheet type transformable robots, and developed some prototype to show our scenario.
In this paper we present a design of a friendly user interface for the elderly with Parkinson's disease (PD) by using an open source system platform in smartphones. This design provides an interactive interface, a large font, a big button, an intuitive graphical interface, an important feature enhancement and some simplified functions, and it is suitable for the elderly with PD. This design also includes...
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