Technologies for the Development of Spoken Dialog Systems in Brazilian Portuguese

This work discusses the integration of available technologies for developing spoken dialog systems in Brazilian Portuguese. As a proof-of-concept, it describes a system for non-visual and on-line Web search on Windows.The prototype system is based on Microsoft´s Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI), which provides an interface that allows the establishment of a dialog, where the system asks the site and query word. The system then reads aloud the page contents. The system itself coordinates the interaction with the user and is currently limited to query by the name of countries.