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Voice Speech Interfaces

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Human-robot communication; Language; Symbol grounding

Definition

Voice speech interfaces concerns the design and use of algorithms and tools based on natural language and machine-learning methods for human-robot communication.

Overview

A fundamental behavioral and cognitive capability of a robot interacting with a human user is speech, since spoken language is the primary means used by people to communicate with each other. Moreover, communication between people, and between humans and robots, is not only based on speech. Rather, communication is based on a rich multimodal process that combines spoken language with a variety of nonverbal behaviors such as eye gaze, hand gestures, tactile interaction, and emotional cues (Mavridis 2015; Cangelosi and Schlesinger 2015). Speech-based interfaces, complemented by multimodal communication, can contribute to forming a consistent and robust recognition process for the robot (and humans) by reducing ambiguity about the sensory...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, School of Computing and Mathematics, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK

    Angelo Cangelosi

  2. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tetsuya Ogata

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Blk 1E Gillman Hts #17-43, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Marcelo H Ang

  2. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

    Oussama Khatib

  3. Dipto di Informatica e Sistemistca, Univ di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

    Bruno Siciliano

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University of Technology & Education, Cheon-An, Chungcheong, Republic of Korea

    Jee-Hwan Ryu

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Cangelosi, A., Ogata, T. (2018). Voice Speech Interfaces. In: Ang, M., Khatib, O., Siciliano, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41610-1_28-1

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