Pioneering a Thai Language

A pioneering spoken dialogue system with Thai language interaction is introduced in this paper. The system aims at an automatic hotel reservation task in a mixedinitiative scheme. With an existing small set of speech corpus, an attempt to initialize the system for data collection is reported. Except a speech recognizer and synthesizer, the other submodules including a language understanding module, a dialogue manager, and a text generation module are invented as easily extensible, rule-based components. Descriptions of each submodule are given briefly. The first user's evaluation achieves medium user satisfaction and is a good indicator for us to rapidly improve the current system