Towards SamiTalk: A Sami-Speaking Robot Linked to Sami Wikipedia

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A3 Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa
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2017
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University of Helsinki
Dept Signal Process and Acoust
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en
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9
343-351
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Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, IWSDS 2016, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Volume 999
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We describe our work towards developing SamiTalk, a robot application for the North Sami language. With SamiTalk, users will hold spoken dialogues with a humanoid robot that speaks and recognizes North Sami. The robot will access information from the Sami Wikipedia, talk about requested topics using the Wikipedia texts, and make smooth topic shifts to related topics using the Wikipedia links. SamiTalk will be based on the existing WikiTalk system for Wikipedia-based spoken dialogues, with newly developed speech components for North Sami.
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Humanoid robots, Language revitalization, Speech technology, Spoken dialogue systems
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10.1007/978-981-10-2585-3_28
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Wilcock , G , Laxström , N , Leinonen , J , Smit , P , Kurimo , M & Jokinen , K 2017 , Towards SamiTalk: A Sami-Speaking Robot Linked to Sami Wikipedia . in K Jokinen & G Wilcock (eds) , Dialogues with Social Robots - Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation . Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering , vol. 999 , Springer , Singapore , pp. 343-351 , International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems , Saariselkä , Finland , 13/01/2016 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2585-3_28
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