Desenvolvimentos recentes na interface humano-robô baseada em linguagem falada do robô Carl

Abstract

The development of robots capable of accepting instructions in terms of familiar concepts to the user is still a challenge. For these robots to emerge it’s essential the development of natural language interfaces, since this is regarded as the only acceptable interface for a machine which intents to have a high level of interaction with Humans. In this paper we present the recent evolution of several parts of the spoken language interface of the robot Carl: speech recognition, natural language understanding and natural language generation. The new speech recognition module and part of the natural language understanding were already integrated in Carl. The other experiments reported must be regarded as exploratory, aiming the development of a robust spoken language interface.