A city information system operating over the telephone

Author

Nouza, Jan ; Holada, Miroslav

Author_Institution

SpeechLab., Tech. Univ. of Liberec, Czech Republic

fYear

1998

fDate

29-30 Sep 1998

Firstpage

141

Lastpage

144

Abstract

We present a voice controlled inquiry system designed for operation on the public telephone network. Its goal is to provide residents as well as visitors of a city practical information of various types, such as programs of cinemas and theatres, overview of local sport events, timetables of city and regional transport and opening times of public or private institutions. The InfoCity system, as it is named, operates on a system-driven dialogue platform with an isolated-word style input (using a vocabulary of some 220 words and short phrases) and with a TTS generated output. The InfoCity framework has been adapted for serving the city of Liberec. It has been the first automatic information system of this type developed and tested in Czechia

Keywords

public information systems; speech recognition; speech synthesis; telephone networks; voice equipment; Czechia; InfoCity system; Liberec; TTS generated output; automatic information system; cinema programs; city information system; isolated-word style input; local sport events; opening times; private institution; public institutions; public telephone network; short phrases; system-driven dialogue platform; text to speech synthesis; theatre programs; transport timetables; vocabulary; voice controlled inquiry system; Cities and towns; Consumer electronics; Control systems; Delay; Information systems; Signal processing; Speech; Telecommunication services; Telephony; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications, 1998. IVTTA '98. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE 4th Workshop

Conference_Location

Torino

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5028-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVTTA.1998.727709

Filename

727709