Abstract
We describe our work towards developing SamiTalk , a robot application for the North Sami language. With SamiTalk, users will hold spoken dialogues with a humanoid robot that speaks and recognizes North Sami. The robot will access information from the Sami Wikipedia, talk about requested topics using the Wikipedia texts, and make smooth topic shifts to related topics using the Wikipedia links. SamiTalk will be based on the existing WikiTalk system for Wikipedia-based spoken dialogues, with newly developed speech components for North Sami.
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Open source, available from http://simple4all.org/product/ossian/.
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Open source, available from https://github.com/aalto-speech/AaltoASR.
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Open source, available from http://www.cis.hut.fi/projects/morpho/.
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Open source, available from https://github.com/vsiivola/variKN.
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We thank our DigiSami project colleagues for Sami and English translations and the University of Tromsø for access to their North Sami datasets, and acknowledge the computational resources provided by the Aalto Science-IT project. The work has received funding from the EC’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement n°287678 and from the Academy of Finland under the Finnish Centre of Excellence Program 2012–2017 (grant n°251170, COIN) and through the project Fenno-Ugric Digital Citizens (grant n°270082).
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Wilcock, G., Laxström, N., Leinonen, J., Smit, P., Kurimo, M., Jokinen, K. (2017). Towards SamiTalk: A Sami-Speaking Robot Linked to Sami Wikipedia. In: Jokinen, K., Wilcock, G. (eds) Dialogues with Social Robots. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 427. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2585-3_28
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