The role of Speech Recognition in Multimodal HMIs for Automotive Applications

Abstract

The importance of speech dialogue systems in automotive environments drastically increased in the past years. More and more applications need to be controlled by the user. Using speech interfaces to do so can improve safety during driving. However, there are special requirements to the speech dialogue in such environments. This paper will outline some of them and propose solutions. As the major topic design issues concerning the integration of speech into graphical user interfaces are discussed and the GUIDE design tool will be introduced. GUIDE was developed as a tool for designing GUIs and was recently extended to allow the simultaneous integration of speech dialogue. As we will discuss in the paper, such an integrated design is extremely important for the development of natural and intuitive human machine interfaces.