A tool for the rapid prototyping of "practical dialogues"

Abstract

By the term “practical dialogue” we mean what is necessary to a voice interaction with-out particular limitations regarding the naturalness and freedom of the language used, but on the fulfillment of a specific goal. The tool, or better the tools, that arise refer to two well-defined and specific phases of development of a speech dialogue: a first step having the purpose of evaluation of the tools and characterization of dialogue and voice interaction with the user through the simulation of a hypothetical and ideal system simulated in part or in whole by an operator with the technique of the Wizard of Oz; a second which allows, quickly and easily, to provide a system of voice dialog exploiting third-party technologies for both voice technologies and language processing.