Speaker: Antoine Raux
Title: "Let's Go Public! Taking a Spoken Dialogue System into the Real World"

Abstract:
In this talk, I will describe how we made the CMU Let's Go spoken dialog
system available to the general public. The Let's Go Public spoken dialog
system provides bus schedule information to the Pittsburgh population at
night, when the human operators are not working. I will explain the changes
we made to our original research system in order to make it usable for the
general public and will present an analysis of the calls and dialogue
strategies we have used to ensure high performance.

This talk is based on a paper by Antoine Raux, Brian Langner, Dan Bohus,
Alan W Black and Maxine Eskenazi submitted to Interspeech 2005.