Principal Investigator Howard Shrobe
Co-investigator Kimberle Koile
In collaboration with the Vision Interface Project (VIP) we have developed a new interface for engaging the speech recognition capabilities of the environment into our activities, such as meetings. Look-To-Talk (LTT) interface (see paper) involves an animated avatar representing the room, and head-pose tracking. The environment gets ready to engage in a spoken interaction with the user if the user faces the avatar. If, instead, the user faces other people in the space, the speech recognition system of the environment remains inactive thus preventing accidental response to utterances that are really directed at other humans and not at the environment. Currently, further work is planned on rigorous evaluation of LTT and on further improvements to the system.