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Gnome Desktop Management by Voice

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Advances in New Technologies, Interactive Interfaces, and Communicability (ADNTIIC 2010)

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Abstract

There are open source tools available for voice based desktop control. Unfortunately these tools often work with languages that have reliable open source large vocabulary acoustic models. This paper describes the steps needed to build a specific small vocabulary acoustic model with a reduced set of desktop control commands. It includes a review of the state of the art of open source voice technologies and open source desktop control tools. It also describes the experimental work in Spanish. This language is especially well suited for this task because 1) it does have a large vocabulary acoustic model that can be used as baseline and 2) there are specific regional peculiarities that give a insight on the benefits of building small vocabulary specialized acoustic models.

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  1. Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos, C/ José Luis Pérez Pujadas, s/n, 18006, Granada, Spain

    Alberto Corpas & Mario Cámara

  2. Intelligent Dialogue Systems, Avda. de los Descubrimientos 11, 41092, Seville, Spain

    Guillermo Pérez

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  1. HCI Lab., Via Pascoli, S.15, CP 7, 24121, Bergamo, Italy

    Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra

  2. EATCO Research Group, University of Cordoba, Campus de Rabanales, 14071, Cordoba, Spain

    Carlos de Castro Lozano

  3. Department of Drawing, Desing and Aesthetic, Fine Arts College, University of La Laguna, Camino del Hierro, 4, 38009, La Laguna, Spain

    Mauricio Pérez Jiménez

  4. Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond st, G1 1XH, Glasgow, UK

    Emma Nicol

  5. Interactive Media Division, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, 900 West 34 Street, SCA 201, 90089-2211, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Andreas Kratky

  6. HCI Lab., Via Pascoli, S. 15, CP 7, 24121, Bergamo, Italy

    Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra

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Corpas, A., Cámara, M., Pérez, G. (2011). Gnome Desktop Management by Voice. In: Cipolla Ficarra, F.V., de Castro Lozano, C., Pérez Jiménez, M., Nicol, E., Kratky, A., Cipolla-Ficarra, M. (eds) Advances in New Technologies, Interactive Interfaces, and Communicability. ADNTIIC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6616. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20810-2_16

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