IBM - CVUT Student Research Projects Google maps with voice Martin Absolon (absolm1@fel.cvut.cz) Ivo...

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Google maps with voiceMartin Absolon (absolm1@fel.cvut.cz)Ivo Čermák (cermai1@fel.cvut.cz)

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Motivation

• Create a user friendly voice interface to map (Google, Yahoo!,…)

• Usage of VoiceXML• Voice recognized by Opera voice plug-in

– IBM Multimodal Runtime Environment

• Tasks:– Generate suitable grammars– GUI

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Implementation - grammars

• 4 types of grammars: – Map and tabs control

• Zoom change, map navigation,…

– Tab-specific grammars • Last 10 recognized phrases• Business place finding

– USA states– Cities of state

• Dynamically chosen

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Implementation - GUI

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Demonstration

• Video

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Usability test

• Basic functionality test– Map navigation, tab switching, …– Place searching

• Voice recognition dependency

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Summary of usability test

+ User friendly application

+ Huge potential in PDA, pocket PC,…

• Several improvements of application

- Quality of voice recognition

- Wrong position of help

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Conclusion

• Done– Basic conception of GUI– Proper grammar changing– States and cities– Business place finding

• To do– Streets– Get direction – start address -> end address

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Thank You for

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