| Presentation | 2006/6/16 Spoken Guidance Systems "Kita-chan" and "Kita-chan robot" : Their Development and Operation in a Railway Station Hiromichi KAWANAMI, Manabu KIDA, Naoki HAYAKAWA, Tobias Cincarek, Takahiro KITAMURA, Tomoyuki KATO, Kiyohiro SHIKANO, |
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| Abstract(in English) | We have been developing the "Takemaru-kun" spoken information guidance system set on a real environment: the public city center ISTA in Ikoma, Nara. Following success of the system, two new spoken systems are developed and have been in operation at "Gakken-kitaikoma eki", the railway station in Ikoma, since end of Mar. 2003. One system is the "Kita-chan" system, which is fundamentally a conventional system like "Takemaru-kun", which uses CG agent system but has a touch-panel input device and allows users to access the Internet web contents. The other is "Kita-chan robot", which has a robot-like interface designed to be friendly for users. Both systems are fundamentally same in their service contents. They can respond information about the station, institutions around the station and so on, with synthetic speech and web browser output. In the response generation process, in addition to a conventional matching scoring method that compares question-example texts and speech recognition output, network grammars are newly prepared for route information and map display services. In this paper, we describe outlines of the system, and the two weeks operational result about user information of the two systems from the viewpoint of an age group. In short, the both systems are accepted to the station users and especially "Kita-chan robot" is used by any age groups. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Spoken guidance system / Robot-like interface / Real environment / Spontaneous speech / Human factor |
| Paper # | SP2006-14 |
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| Conference Date | 2006/6/16(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Spoken Guidance Systems "Kita-chan" and "Kita-chan robot" : Their Development and Operation in a Railway Station |
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| Keyword(1) | Spoken guidance system |
| Keyword(2) | Robot-like interface |
| Keyword(3) | Real environment |
| Keyword(4) | Spontaneous speech |
| Keyword(5) | Human factor |
| 1st Author's Name | Hiromichi KAWANAMI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | () |
| 2nd Author's Name | Manabu KIDA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | / |
| 3rd Author's Name | Naoki HAYAKAWA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | / Currently with Toyota |
| 4th Author's Name | Tobias Cincarek |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Currently with Asahi Kasei / |
| 5th Author's Name | Takahiro KITAMURA |
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| 6th Author's Name | Tomoyuki KATO |
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| 7th Author's Name | Kiyohiro SHIKANO |
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| Date | 2006/6/16 |
| Paper # | SP2006-14 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.106 |
| Number (no) | 123 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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