Development environment of a spoken dialogue system based on PRINTEPS

In this paper, we describe the development of a spoken dialogue system based on PRINTEPS architecture. This spoken dialogue system is composed of five modules (speech recognition, language understanding, dialogue management, response generation, speech synthesis). In PRINTEPS, when calling the spoken dialogue system, system developers specify the small-scale dialogue goal. The system performs a dialogue with the user in order to obtain necessary information from the user. Dialogue processing rules corresponding to the dialogue goal is prepared in advance. The advantage of PRINTEPS-based system development is that system developers can build a spoken dialogue system without the knowledge of spoken dialogue system.