• DocumentCode
    1039485
  • Title

    Synthetic speech for real time direction-giving

  • Author

    Schmandt, Christopher M. ; Davis, James Raymond

  • Author_Institution
    Media Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    8/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    649
  • Lastpage
    653
  • Abstract
    The authors present an overview of the Back Seat Driver, a research prototype of a system to use speech synthesis as a navigational aid for an automobile equipped with localization equipment. They discuss the map database, the route-finding algorithm, repair strategies, and the discourse generator
  • Keywords
    automobiles; radionavigation; speech synthesis; Back Seat Driver; automobile; discourse generator; localization equipment; map database; navigational aid; radionavigation; real time direction-giving; repair strategies; route-finding algorithm; speech synthesis; Automobiles; Counting circuits; Databases; Displays; Laboratories; Prototypes; Real time systems; Roads; Speech synthesis; User interfaces;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0098-3063
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/30.44331
  • Filename
    44331