SAFER Seminar: Speech Technology and its Application in Vehicle Industry

2010-04-15 09:00

For driver, it is always preferable to have the driver’s eyes on the road and hands on the steering wheel. A lot of in-vehicle tasks may take driver’s attention from the road, therefore cause drive distraction.

Automatic Speech Recognition and dialog system have been the technologies that vehicle designers interested in. The in-perfect speech recognition rate, speech errors and other human factor issues have become the obstacles for its applications. But the related researches have been carried out for over 30 years, or more.

This workshop is going to provide a state-of-the-art of the research and development of speech technology and its applications. Welcome!

	PROGRAM
09:00-09:20	Introduction about speech technology and application in vehicle, state of the art	Fang Chen, SAFER/Chalmers
09:20-09:40	Introduction to Dialogue Systems	Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg
09:40-10:00	Current research on in-vehicle dialogue systems	Jessica Willing, University of Gothenburg
10:00-10:20	Multimodality in Dialogue Systems	Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg
10:20-10:40	Cognitive workload management	Jessica Willing, University of Gothenburg
10:40-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:20	Speech Technology for Dictation	Fredrik Hildebrandsson, SpeechCom Systemutveckling AB
11:20-11.40	Speech recognition technology applications, Nuance perspective	Lewis Mowatt, Nuance Communications UK Ltd
11:40-12:00	The Talkamatic Dialogue System	Fredrik Kronlid, Talkamatic
12:00-13:00	Lunch break
13:00-13:20	Integrating speech in the overall vehicle HMI	Kent Eric Lång, Mecel
13:20-13:40	Emotional state in communication	Fang Chen, SAFER/Chalmers
13:40-14:00	Conclusions of the workshop and open for demo.