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The paper presents Let’sFly spoken dialogue system intended for natural human-computer interaction via telephone lines in travel planning domain. The system uses ASR, keyword spotting and TTS methods for continuous Russian speech and a dialogue manager with mixed-initiative strategy. Semi- automatic Wizard of Oz technique used for collecting speech data and real dialogues is described. Semi-automatic model is a tradeoff between a fully automatic spoken dialogue system and an interaction with a hidden human-operator working like a computer system. The experimental data obtained with this technique are discussed in the paper.
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Karpov, A., Ronzhin, A., Leontyeva, A. (2008). A Semi-automatic Wizard of Oz Technique for Let’sFly Spoken Dialogue System. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87391-4_74
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