Flower Voice: Virtual Assistant for Open Data

Abstract

Open Data is now collecting attention for innovative service creation, mainly in the area of government, bioscience, and smart X project. However, to promote its application more for consumer services, a search engine for Open Data to know what kind of data are there would be of help. This paper presents a voice assistant which uses Open Data as its knowledge source. It is featured by improvement of accuracy according to the user feedbacks, and acquisition of unregistered data by the user participation. We also show an application to support for a field-work and confirm its effectiveness.