Method for Preparing Information for a Speech Dialogue System
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHans-Ulrich Block, Manfred Gehrke, Stefanie Schachchti
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Abstract
In many application environments, it is desirable to provide voice access to tables on Internet pages, where the user asks a subject-related question in a natural language and receives an adequate answer from the table read out to him in a natural language. A method is disclosed for preparing information presented in a tabular form for a speech dialogue system so that the information of the table can be consulted in a user dialogue in a targeted manner.
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A method for editing information for a speech-dialog system, comprising
- presenting information presented in tabular form,
- standardizing the information presented in tabular form and/or its representation in accordance with predefined criteria and accessibly stored,
- assigning horizontal and/or vertical rows of table elements a first grammar and the table elements from the respective row a second grammar,
- recognizing, by means of the first and second grammars that describe structural and conceptual rules for spoken inputs, the assigned row and the assigned table elements of the respective row,
- editing the information presented in tabular form has been edited for a speech-dialog system on the basis of the assigned first and second grammar.
A device for editing information for a speech-dialog system, comprising:
- means for providing information presented in tabular form,
- means for standardizing the information presented in tabular form and/or its representation in accordance with predefined criteria and a means for accessibly storing it/them,
- means for assigning a first grammar to horizontal and/or vertical rows and a second grammar to the table elements from the respective row, the grammars describing structural and conceptual rules for spoken inputs by means of which the assigned row and the assigned table elements of the respective row can be recognized so that the information presented in tabular form has been edited for a speech-dialog system on the basis of the assigned first and second grammars.
A system for the interrogability of information presented in tabular form in a speech dialog, comprising:
- a speech recognition unit for recognizing requests made by a user;
- a dialog engine for ascertaining information that is presented in tabular form and has been requested by users;
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- a speech synthesizing unit for outputting the requested information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.