Vocal interface for a man-machine dialog

Abstract

We describe a dialogue-handling module used as an interface between a vocal terminal and a task-oriented device (for instance: a robot manipulating blocks). This module has been specially designed to be implanted on a single board using microprocessor, and inserted into the vocal terminal which already comprises a speech recognition board and a synthesis board. The entire vocal system is at present capable of conducting a real time spoken dialogue with its user.