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A language for interactive speech dialog specification

Developing a complex spoken dialog application for speech recognition systems using currently available tools requires careful coordination of three separate components: the recognition grammar, the interpreter for the recognition output, and the dialog control logic. Each of these components is an integral part of an interactive speech application; however specifying each one separately makes building speech applications cumbersome, time consuming, and error prone. This thesis describes a language which allows the specification of dialog structure and interpretation in one concise manner. As part of this thesis a compiler for the language has been developed which generates a recognition grammar and application code to control the dialog flow and recognition parsing from this common specification. Thesis Supervisor: Christopher M. Schmandt Title: Principal Research Scientist, MIT Media Laboratory Thesis Supervisor: J. Robin Rohlicek Title: Division Scientist, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.