Self-taught assistive vocal interfaces: an overview of the ALADIN project
Jort Florent Gemmeke, Bart Ons, Netsanet M. Tessema, Hugo Van hamme, Janneke van de Loo, Guy De Pauw, Walter M. P. Daelemans, Jonathan Huyghe, Jan Derboven, Lode Vuegen, Bert Van Den Broeck, Peter Karsmakers, Bart Vanrumste · 2013
This paper gives an overview of research within the ALADIN project, which aims to develop an assistive vocal interface for people with a physical impairment. In contrast to existing ap-proaches, the vocal interface is trained by the end-user himself, which means it can be used with any vocabulary and grammar, and that it is maximally adapted to the — possibly dysarthric — speech of the user. This paper describes the overall learn-ing framework, the user-centred design and evaluation aspects, database collection and approaches taken to combat problems such as noise and erroneous input. Index Terms: vocal user interface, user-centred design, self-taught learning, speech database, dysarthric speech