SRI Communicator System
The DARPA
Communicator program is exploring the design and evaluation of
spoken dialogue systems, with an emphasis on live data, plug-and-play
components, and portability to new domains. The SRI Communicator
system is being developed by researchers in the Artificial Intelligence Center and
the Speech Technology And
Research Laboratory of SRI
International. SRI is contributing to the program goals of
advancing the state of the art of intelligent conversational
interfaces, along with ATT , BBN, CMU , IBM, MIT,
MITRE, NIST, the
University of Colorado , and affiliate sites.
The first domain for the dialogue systems developed for Communicator
is travel planning, with the goal of users being able to call a system
over the phone and find out air, car, and hotel information to the
point of being able to price a detailed itinerary, though not actually
booking a ticket.
Publications:
DARPA Communicator Dialog Travel Planning Systems: The June
2000 Data Collection, EUROSPEECH 2001
Travel Data:
SRI's AMEX transcripts (1989)
Information for Users of the System
For SRI staff only:
SRI Internal Communicator pages