rrSDS: Towards a Robot-ready Spoken Dialogue System

no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2020 • Casey Kennington, Daniele Moro, Lucas Marchand, Jake Carns, David McNeill

Spoken interaction with a physical robot requires a dialogue system that is modular, multimodal, distributive, incremental and temporally aligned.

Evaluating and Improving Child-Directed Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Eric Booth, Jake Carns, Casey Kennington, Nader Rafla

Speech recognition has seen dramatic improvements in the last decade, though those improvements have focused primarily on adult speech.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2