Designing sophisticated spoken human-computer dialogs is difficult both because dialogs can become extremely complex and also because spoken dialogs by definition are auditory, not visual. Therefore there is no obvious mapping of a spoken dialog design to a visual representation that can be used in a design tool. Nevertheless, tools for dialog design are very important, and there have been many attempts to develop useful tools to aid developers in designing spoken dialogs. This paper discusses a number of approaches to dialog visualization and points out considerations that need to be taken into account when selecting a tool for a particular project.
Key words: speech application development tools, spoken dialog design, visualization
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Dahl, D. (2004). Visualization Tools for Designing. In: Dahl, D. (eds) Practical Spoken Dialog Systems. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2676-8_5
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