ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1995
ISCA Archive Eurospeech 1995

Multimodal spoken dialogue systems and rapid-prototyping

Tsuneo Nitta, Mika Amamiya, Hiroyuki Kamio, Hiroshi Matsu'ura, Arisa Uchiyama, Masafumi Tamura

A multimodal dialogue platform (MultiksDial) and rapid-prototyping environment of multimodal user-interface (MUI) are described. MUI for a task is designed by using a MUI design support tool (Muse) and translated into UIScript along which the multi modal dialogue platform is operated and tested. MU I designers can set various types of properties of UI-object (input-objects: button, speech, hand-writing, sensor; output-object: text, image, audio, text-to-speech) with dialogue boxes easily. The preparation of the rapid-prototyping environment has reduced the constructing & testing hours for multimodal dialogue systems by less than one-sixth.