Swedish CLARIN activities

Proceedings of the NODALIDA 2009 workshop Nordic Perspectives on the CLARIN Infrastructure of Language Resources. Editors: Rickard Domeij, Kimmo Koskenniemi, Steven Krauwer, Bente Maegaard, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson and Koenraad de Smedt. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 5 (2009), 1-5. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio.no/nealt . Electronically published at Tartu University Library (Estonia) http://hdl.handle.net/10062/9207

Speech recognition in the JAS 39 Gripen aircraft -

During the years 2000 and 2001, the speech of eight pilots flying the JAS 39 Gripen aircraft was recorded at Saab in Linkoping. Thirty sentences were recorded on the ground and at di#erent G-loads, with a maximum of 8G. The sentences were spoken in both Swedish and English. There was also some additional material which consisted of mostly spontaneous speech. The purpose of this Masters Thesis was to perform speech recognition on the material, and also adaptation to di#erent G-loads, in order to see if this improved recognition. A reference test using a di#erent clean speech database showed that the monophone model sets used for these experiments gave good performance in clean conditions

Olga - A Dialogue System With An Animated Talking Agent

The object of the Olga project is to develop an interactive 3D animated talking agent. A futuristic application scenario is interactive digital TV, where the alga agent would guide naive users through the various services available on the network. The current application is a consumer information service for microwave ovens. alga required the development of a system with components from many different fields: multimodal interfaces, dialogue management, speech recognition, speech synthesis, graphics, animation, facilities for direct manipulation and database handling. To integrate all knowledge sources alga is implemented with separate modules communicaring with a central dialogue interaction manager. In this paper we mainly describe the talking animated agent and the dialogue manager. There is also a short description of the preliminary speech recogniser used in the project