- Alexander I. Rudnicky, R. Brennan, J. Polifroni. 1988. Interactive problem solving with speech. Abstract: Until recently, systems offering high‐performance speaker‐independent continuous speech recognition were not available, making it difficult to understand how speech should be used in interactive systems. The advent of the SPHINX system developed al Carnegie‐Mellon University [K.‐F. Lee and H.‐W. Hon, Proc. IEEE ICASSP‐88, 123–126 (1988)] has made it practical to address the issue of designing systems that integrate speech into “real‐world” tasks. This paper describes experience with several tasks that use tightly coupled speech interaction: a programmable voice calculator, a personal scheduler, and a spreadsheet. The goal of this work is to create an environment that allows for the rapid prototyping of “spoken language” systems and allows the study of human factors issues that these entail. The environment that was developed includes the ability to rapidly configure and refine recognition systems using declarative specifications, and the ability to define control structures suitable to particular tasks. [...
