Intelligent
kiosk
Keywords
human computer interaction, speech recognition & synthesis, data mining, mobile, java, microphone array
Abstract:
T
his
project is about developing a Intelligent Kiosk a device
which provide various information for inhabitants of the city as well
as for strangers. The main principle is based on a philosophy of
accessing data from the internet and to provide a user-friendly
interface to these data using various types of intelligent kiosks.
The stress is put to the multimodal human-computer communications in
both directions using image audio/speech and text modes. We propose
several versions of the intelligent kiosks. First version is placed
on public places and offer three-dimensional human head displayed on
a large display that gives information about city, institutions,
weather, etc. It is a system with integrated microphone array, camera
and touch screen as an input and two displays and loudspeakers as the
output. Speech recognized question for some information will be
transformed into an answer using database or internet and then
visually and acoustically displayed to the costumer with help of
robust multilingual speech synthesizer and powerful graphical engine.
The second flexible version, even if with limited functionality, is
the concept of mobile phone used as a multimedia terminal for access
to different information. The type of communications depends on the
version of the terminal, The stand terminals suppose to have mainly
fixed IP connection, but wireless access can be used, as well. The
second version of terminals uses WiFi technology.
Links:
http://www.iqkiosk.eu
http://www.sitekiosk.com
http://www.ktl.elf.stuba.sk/~vrabec/