ReTiCo: An open-source framework for modeling real-time conversations in spoken dialogue systems

Abstract:

In this paper we present ReTiCo, a python-based programming frame-work that utilizes the concepts of incremental processing to create interactive spo-ken dialogue systems and simulations of conversational behavior. In contrast toalready existing toolkits like InproTK, our framework allows for quick visual cre-ation of complex networks and is able to save and load incremental networks forsimulations, automated testing as well as analysis. It is focused on simplifying theuse of incremental modules to make research on specific tasks of an incrementaldialogue system (like real-time speech signal processing) and on the interactionbetween different incremental modules easier.We make this framework accessible as open source so that it can be used in researchon spoken dialogue systems and conversation simulation.


Year: 2019
In session: Poster und Demonstrationen
Pages: 134 to 140