A Spoken Dialogue System to Control Robots

Abstract: Speech recognition is available on ordinary personal computers and is starting to appear in standard software applications. A known problem with speech interfaces is their integration into current graphical user interfaces. This paper reports on a prototype developed for studying integration of speech dialogue into graphical interfaces aimed towards programming of industrial robot arms. The aim of the prototype is to develop a speech dialogue system for solving simple relocation tasks in a robot work-cell using an industrial robot arm.