MIT LabCAST (the Media Lab) - #37 Roadie

http://web.media.mit.edu/~peggychi/projects.html#Roadie "Goal-Oriented Interfaces for Consumer Electronics" Consumer electronics devices are becoming more complicated, intimidating users. These devices do not know anything about everyday life or human goals, and they show irrelevant menus and options. Using common-sense reasoning, we are building a system, Roadie, with knowledge about the user's intentions; this knowledge will help the device to display relevant information to reach the user's goal. This will lead to more human-like interactions with these devices. http://labcast.media.mit.edu/?p=73

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[peiyuchi]

@robertwang1982

hi there,

yup, it's from user's speech in realtime - we apply available commercial product (in our case, MacSpeech Dictate) to acquire the recognized speech in plain text, which is then parsed by our own program to do the reasoning. It only takes about 10-15 minutes to go through the training course in advance; the accuracy was pretty good for our scenarios. Let me know if you have any further question!

- peggy

[robertwang1982]

I'm wondering is the voice command really come from what you say? Or is it just input by hand?