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This paper presents the motivation for, design and current implementation of a robot spoken dialogue platform, created to aid exploration of multimodal human-machine dialogue. It also describes the design of a dialogue used to collect a database of interactive speech while the robot was exhibited a over a three-month period at the Science Gallery in Dublin. The system was wizard-controlled and collected samples of informal, chatty dialogue—normally difficult to capture under laboratory conditions for human-human dialogue and particularly so for human-machine interaction. The system is being further developed to facilitate further data collection and experimentation.
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This work is being carried out at TCD with thanks to Science Foundation Ireland (SFI Stokes Professorship Award 07/SK/I1218) and PI (FastNet project) grant 09/IN.1/I2631.
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Gilmartin, E., Campbell, N. (2014). More Than Just Words: Building a Chatty Robot. In: Mariani, J., Rosset, S., Garnier-Rizet, M., Devillers, L. (eds) Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8280-2_16
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