ISCA Archive SSPR 2003
ISCA Archive SSPR 2003

Development of a spontaneous speech recognition engine for an entertainment robot

H. Lucke, H. Honda, K. Minamino, A. Hiroe, H. Mori, H. Ogawa, Y. Asano, H. Kishi

Natural speech interaction is a difficult, yet important, capability for a social humanoidal robot. We address the problems of spontaneous speaking style in a real environment and report on our progress of developing a robust large vocabulary speech recognition engine for an anthropomorphic entertainment robot SDR-4X.