Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 Putting Spoken Dialog Systems into Practice

These proceedings presents the state-of-the-art in spoken dialog systems with applications in robotics, knowledge access and communication. It addresses specifically: 1. Dialog for interacting with smartphones; 2. Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access; 3. Dialog for robot interaction; 4. Mediated dialog (including crosslingual dialog involving Speech Translation); and,5. Dialog quality evaluation. These articles were presented at the IWSDS 2012 workshop.

Dialog for Robot Interaction.- Dialog for Interacting with Smartphones.- Dialog for Open Domain Knowledge Access.- Mediated and Crosslingual Dialog.- Spoken Dialog Prototypes and Products.- Speech Recognition and Understanding.- Emotional and Interactional Profile of the Speaker During Dialog.- Dialog Management.- Adapting, Sharing and Learning.- Objective and Subjective Spoke Dialog Systems Quality Evaluation Methodologies, Strategies and Paradigms.- Spoken Dialog Databases and Corpora, Including Methodologies and Ethics.

Provides a survey of the state-of-the-art in the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems in everyday applications Covers scientific achievements in language processing that result in the development of successful applications Addresses general issues regarding the advances in Spoken Dialog Systems Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras