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Automated Audio-visual Dialogs over Internet to Assist Dependant People

Authors:
Thierry Simonnet
Gérard Chollet
Daniel Caon
Jérôme Boudy

Keywords: ASR; Voice over IP (VoIP);

Abstract:
An increasing number of people are in need of help at home (elderly, isolated and/or disabled persons and people with mild cognitive impairment). Several solutions can be considered to maintain social links while providing tele-care to these people. Many proposals suggest the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) to control equipments and to maintain social link. In this paper, we will look at an environment constrained solution, its drawbacks (such as latency) and its advantages (e.g.flexibility, integration). A key design choice is to control equipments using a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solution with an ASR system, while addressing bandwidth limitations, providing good communication quality to obtain the best results for speech recognition. The resulting platform offers a powerful framework for setting up a virtual butler but also different services as voice controlled equipments and text transcriptions of medical talk.

Pages: 105 to 110

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: March 25, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-186-1

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from March 25, 2012 to March 30, 2012