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A Platform for Offline Voice Assistants

Development of Assistant Applications Without Being Connected to Commercial Central Services

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Innovations for Community Services (I4CS 2022)

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Smart speakers provide a convenient way to request information or control the smart home. Commercial devices require central services operated by large companies. As a result, many users are concerned about privacy and security. A solution could be to shift all involved software components to the end-user device. Even though we then cannot access the large variety of functions of commercial smart speakers, they often are sufficient for common applications such as weather forecast, public transportation timetables or to control smart home devices. Even though existing voice interaction platforms already provide basic functions such as wake word detection and speech recognition, a developer still has to put huge efforts to create smart speaker applications. In this paper we present the JabberBrick platform that significantly simplifies such developments.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Nuremberg, Germany

    Jörg Roth

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  1. Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, The Hague, The Netherlands

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  2. Deutsche Telekom Technology & Innovation, Darmstadt, Germany

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  3. University of Applied Sciences Jena, Jena, Germany

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  4. University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

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Roth, J. (2022). A Platform for Offline Voice Assistants. In: Phillipson, F., Eichler, G., Erfurth, C., Fahrnberger, G. (eds) Innovations for Community Services. I4CS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1585. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06668-9_6

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