Spoken dialogue data collected in the Waxholm project

Abstract

This paper describes the data collected in Wizard of Oz experiments in a spoken dialogue system, Waxholm, that provides information on boat traffic in the Stockholm archipelago. The data consist of utterance-length speech files, their corresponding transcriptions, and log files of the dialogue sessions. Apart from the spontaneous dialogue speech, the speech material also comprise recordings of phonetically balanced reference sentences uttered by all 66 subjects. The recording procedure is described as well as some characteristics of the speech data and the dialogue. Introduction Our research group at KTH is currently building a generic system in which speech synthesis and speech recognition can be studied and developed in a man-machine dialogue framework. The system is designed to facilitate the collection of speech and text data that are required for development (Blomberg et al., 1993; Carlson, 1994). In this paper, we describe the data that have been collected in Wizard of Oz experi...