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CNL 2016: Controlled Natural Language pp 48–57Cite as

A Speech Interface to the PENG\(^{ASP}\) System

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The increased presence and accessibility of online speech recognition services has encouraged an investigation of the effectiveness of using such a service to allow users to speak a textual specification in controlled natural language instead of typing it. Google’s Web Speech API provides an accessible and portable speech recognition service that integrates well with web-based interfaces. Using Google’s Web Speech API, we present the design and implementation of a speech-based interface for the PENG\(^{ASP}\) system. We do this in order to examine the usefulness of speech-based input for controlled natural language processing and to explore potential synergies between speech-based and text-based input.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://developer.att.com/apis/speech.

  2. 2.

    https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html.

  3. 3.

    https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net/.

  4. 4.

    http://www.swi-prolog.org/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.json.org/.

  6. 6.

    http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm.

  7. 7.

    http://api.jquery.com/.

  8. 8.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/.

  9. 9.

    https://cloud.google.com/speech/.

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  1. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia

    Christopher Nalbandian & Rolf Schwitter

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  2. University of Malta , Msida, Malta

    Gordon J. Pace

  3. University of Aberdeen , Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    Adam Wyner

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Nalbandian, C., Schwitter, R. (2016). A Speech Interface to the PENG\(^{ASP}\) System. In: Davis, B., Pace, G., Wyner, A. (eds) Controlled Natural Language. CNL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9767. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41498-0_5

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