The waxholm application database
Johan Bertenstam, Mats Blomberg, Rolf Carlson, Kjell O. E. Elenius, Björn Granström, Joakim Gustafson, Sheri Hunnicutt, Jesper Högberg, Roland Lindell, Lennart Neovius, Lennart Nord, Antonio de Serpa-Leitao, Nikko Ström · 1995
This paper describes an application database collected in Wizard-of-Oz experiments in a spoken dialogue system, WAXHOLM. The system provides information on boat traffic in the Stockholm archipelago. The database consists of utterance-length speech files, their corresponding transcriptions, and log files of the dialogue sessions. In addition to the spontaneous dialogue speech, the material also comprise recordings of phonetically balanced reference sentences uttered by all 66 subjects. In the paper the recording procedure is described as well as some characteristics of the speech data and the dialogue. INTRODUCTION WAXHOLM is a demonstrator spoken dialogue system in which we apply our research on speech recognition and speech synthesis. The system uses visual and auditory means to provide information on boat traffic, accomodation, etc. in the Stockholm archipelago [1], [2], [3]. The application has great similarities to the ATIS domain within the ARPA community, the Voyager system from...