Alexandros Lazaridis was born in Thessaloniki, in 1981. He graduated in September of 2005 from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since October of 2005 he has been accepted as a PhD student at the Wire Communications Laboratory at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Patras. His fields of research include Speech Processing, Voice Conversion and Speech Synthesis.
Abstract: The present work details a multimodal dialogue system, which offers user-friendly access to information, entertainment devices and white good appliances. We focus on the speech interface and the spoken dialogue management, with extensive description of the system’s architecture and functionalities. The services supported are detailed, with comprehensive description of the scenarios implemented.
Abstract: In this work, the evaluation of the LOGOS’ spoken dialogue system is presented. The system offers user-friendly access to information, entertainment devices and white good appliances. Short description of the LOGOS system’s architecture is given. The user interface of the system is based on remote control device, PC keyboard and spoken language. In this paper we focus on the speech interface and the spoken dialogue management. A group of 15 members, aged 23 to 35, were used, in order to evaluate the usability and the degree of acceptance of the LOGOS’ spoken dialogue system from real users. The users were given taskcards, which constructed the scenarios implemented for the home devices’ control and the SMS messaging services.
