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VoiceXML (Voice Extensible Markup Language) is a programming language that is used to develop voice-based applications, such as voice-enabled websites and voice response systems. It is an XML-based language that allows developers to create interactive dialogs between a user and a machine, using spoken input and output.
VoiceXML is commonly used in the development of chatbots, which are computer programs that are designed to simulate conversation with human users. Chatbots can be used in a variety of applications, such as customer service, entertainment, and education. By using VoiceXML, developers can create chatbots that can understand and respond to spoken input from users, allowing for more natural and intuitive interactions.
VoiceXML is a powerful tool for developing voice-based applications, and it is widely used in the creation of chatbots. It provides a standardized and structured way of defining the dialogs between a user and a machine, and it allows developers to easily create and maintain complex voice-based applications. Overall, VoiceXML is an important technology for the development of chatbots and other voice-based applications.
An XML grammar is a set of rules that define the structure and content of an XML document. It is used to specify the elements, attributes, and other components that can be used in an XML document, and to define the relationships between these components.
In the context of VoiceXML, an XML grammar is used to define the structure and content of voice-based applications. It specifies the elements, attributes, and other components that can be used in a VoiceXML document, and it defines the rules for how these components can be used to create interactive dialogs between a user and a machine.
XML grammars are typically written using a specific language, such as the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) or the VoiceXML Grammar Specification (VXML), which are both based on XML. These languages provide a standardized and structured way of defining the rules and structures of an XML grammar, and they are used by developers to create grammars that are compatible with VoiceXML.
Overall, an XML grammar is a crucial component of VoiceXML, and it is used to define the structure and content of voice-based applications. It provides a standardized and structured way of defining the dialogs between a user and a machine, and it allows developers to create complex and interactive voice-based applications.
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The return of the chatbots
R Dale – Natural Language Engineering, 2016 – cambridge.org
… piece of retro technology that has resurfaced in the chatbot world is the finite state dialog modeling framework used in the speech recognition industry, made popular by VoiceXML in a series of standards since version 1.0 in 2000.18 Interacting with some chatbots is incredibly …
Protecting chatbots from toxic content
G Baudart, J Dolby, E Duesterwald, M Hirzel… – Proceedings of the …, 2018 – dl.acm.org
… For instance, the 2004 VoiceXML standard (a W3C stan- dard chatbot programming model) declares “A future version of VoiceXML may specify criteria by which a VoiceXML Pro- cessor safeguards the … Instead, the chatbot designer 100 … Protecting Chatbots from Toxic Content …
Reactive chatbot programming
G Baudart, M Hirzel, L Mandel, A Shinnar… – Proceedings of the 5th …, 2018 – dl.acm.org
… the controller emits signal suspend_resume to suspend the execution of the main chat- bot and launch … 3.3 Chatbot Dispatch In the previous example the switch between the two chatbots is triggered by an … A first solution is to add a dedicated dis- patcher chatbot whose role is to …
Generating chat bots from web API specifications
M Vaziri, L Mandel, A Shinnar, J Siméon… – Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… A chat bot compiler from web API specifications, gen- erating self-documenting chat bots for calling APIs. • In-dialogue curation of generated chat bots using nat- ural language. • A prototype implementation for the compiler and a realization in the Slack messaging system …
An architecture to develop multimodal educative applications with chatbots
D Griol, Z Callejas – International Journal of Advanced …, 2013 – journals.sagepub.com
… Tips on citation download. Download Citation. Download article citation data for: An Architecture to Develop Multimodal Educative Applications with Chatbots. David Griol and Zoraida Callejas. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 2013 10:3. Download Citation …
Automatic generation of chatbots for conversational web browsing
P Chittò, M Baez, F Daniel, B Benatallah – International Conference on …, 2020 – Springer
… markup-based approaches such as VoiceXML [10] and voice-enabled screen readers integrated into web browsers [1]. VoiceXML [10] is a W3C … As for chatbot development, general platforms and tools support the development of stand-alone chatbots (eg, DialogFlow …
Chatbots and new audience opportunities for museums and heritage organisations
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… Chatbots and New Audience Opportunities for Museums and Heritage Organisations Stefania Boiano, Ann … Generally, the term ‘chatbot’ has referred to a software application that engages in a … in the speech recognition sector have been made possible by VoiceXML, which has …
Conversational AI: Dialogue Systems, Conversational Agents, and Chatbots
M McTear – Synthesis Lectures on Human Language …, 2020 – morganclaypool.com
… years that this idea has become a reality with the emergence of digital personal assistants, smart speak- ers, and chatbots … conversational interface, dialogue system, voice user interface, embodied conversa- tional agent, chatbot, deep learning, data-driven, statistical, end-to …
The Geranium System: Multimodal Conversational Agents for E-learning
D Griol, JM Molina, AS de Miguel – Distributed computing and artificial …, 2014 – Springer
… 4. Example VoiceXML document and corresponding grammars … described the Geranium conversational agent, a web-based interactive software with a friendly chatbot that can … The system has been developed using an architecture to cost-effectively develop pedagogic chatbots …
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G Gaia, S Boiano, A Borda – Museums and Digital Culture, 2019 – Springer
… which aims to explore the future of system-initiated directed dialogs of VoiceXML applications, such … API to developers in 2017, providing a means to build a simple chatbot on Facebook. Twitter opened its direct messaging channel to chatbots in the previous year that began a …
The Geranium system: multimodal conversational agents for e-learning
D Griol Barres, JM Molina López… – 2014 – e-archivo.uc3m.es
… 4. Example VoiceXML document and corresponding grammars … described the Geranium conversational agent, a web-based interactive software with a friendly chatbot that can … The system has been developed using an architecture to cost-effectively develop pedagogic chatbots …
The rise of the conversational interface: A new kid on the block?
MF McTear – International workshop on future and emerging trends …, 2016 – Springer
… Toolkits, especially for developing VoiceXML-based applications, for example, Voxeo Evolution … the late Dr Hugh Loebner, have the aim of finding the most human-like chatbot. To date most conversations with chatbots have been text-based, although some more recent chatbots …
Intention Perception and Human-Robot Interaction
B Koenig, E Wirawan, KS Wan – researchgate.net
… 16 Page 17. Suggestions for HRI, part 2 2. Save time by using industry-standard packages. For example, script the chatbot using VoiceXml and the JVoiceXml open-source platform. 3. This will not be adequate, but it will reveal where the substantive challenges are …
MILLA–A multimodal interactive language agent
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… For rapid prototyping many of the dialogue modules were first written in VoiceXML, and then ported to Python modules. 2.1 Pronunciation Tuition … (Level 2), two chatbots created using the Pan- dorabots web-based chatbot hosting service …
Conversational web interaction: proposal of a dialog-based natural language interaction paradigm for the web
M Baez, F Daniel, F Casati – International Workshop on Chatbot Research …, 2019 – Springer
… the other hand is a lightweight markup language created in response to VoiceXML, but that … Developers should thus not have to write any own line of chatbot code … Modern chatbots typically feature AI-powered natural language interpretation requiring proper training before use …
Conversational interfaces: Past and present
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… create VoiceXML applications: Voxeo Evolution Portal 10 and Nuance Café 11 (formerly Bevocal Café). Chatbot applications can be created at Pandorabots 12 and ChatScript. 13 Chapter 7 features the Pandorabots platform, which supports the development of chatbots using …
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… Chatbots trained on a corpus have been proposed to allow conversation practice on … oral communication, along with the speech and textual response, the chatbot provides visual … been developed according to the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) [DOMINGUEZ, K …
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… in this session are from both interview and user interaction with the chatbot and deal … Processing and understanding user input are the tasks of language understanding component of a chat- bot. Most currently built chatbots accept user inputs in the form of sentences instead of …
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… Chapter 7: Creating a conversational interface using chatbot technology … created using fairly simple techniques that have been applied widely in the development of chatbots … provides practical exercises in rule-based and statistical dialog management, using VoiceXML for the …
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… Chatbots trained on a corpus have been proposed to allow conversation practice on … oral communication, along with the speech and textual response, the chatbot provides visual … been developed according to the Voice Extensible MarNup Language (VoiceXML) [DOMINGUEZ …
The dialport portal: Grouping diverse types of spoken dialog systems
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… Popular frame- works from academia include VoiceXML [10], the CSLU toolkit [16], Olympus [2], Trindikit [8], Opendial [7] and the … Thus, a user can talk with the specific chatbot agent con- tinuously without getting intervened and the function of those chatbots will be …
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… Users can ask a chatbot a specific question and the system will respond with the result immediately, or ask a follow-up question to narrow the search space. That way, chatbots can help customers sift through data and products on the internet and help make decisions …
Virtual carer: A first prototype
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Alana: Social dialogue using an ensemble model and a ranker trained on user feedback
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… Eliza: We extended an existing Eliza-style chatbot called Rosie.4 Since the initial Rosie bot was designed for mobile devices, we heavily altered it for the Challenge … Quiz Game: A hand-crafted system developed using a VoiceXML …
Conversational Web Interaction: Proposal of a Dialog-Based Natural Language Interaction Paradigm for the Web?
F Casati – researchgate.net
… the other hand is a lightweight markup language created in response to VoiceXML, but that … Developers should thus not have to write any own line of chatbot code … Modern chatbots typically fea- ture AI-powered natural language interpretation requiring proper training before use …
Coherent topic transition in a conversational agent
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… has been in the context of task-oriented di- alogue, for instance TRIPS [1, 2]. Unlike chatbots which sit … As opposed to the standard chatbot approach (eg ALICE [4]) which is designed to respond to any user … dissimilar to a simple VoiceXML (VXML) approach to interpreting input …
Introducing the Talk Markup Language (TalkML): Adding a little social intelligence to industrial speech interfaces
P Wallis – arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.11294, 2021 – arxiv.org
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Voice Based E-Prescription
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MILLA Multimodal Interactive Language Learning Agent
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An ensemble model with ranking for social dialogue
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A maturity assessment framework for conversational AI development platforms
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Voice application development for Android
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It’s Time to Personalise the Voice
D Kearns – 2020 – scss.tcd.ie
… It was developed for HTML to make it easy for web developers to create voice applications for the web (VoiceXML 2000). SALT is used in HTML pages to add voice recognition to web applications … In 2016, IKEA’s chatbot, Anna, retired due to unforeseen circumstances …
Does a conversational robot need to have its own values? a study of dialogue strategy to enhance people’s motivation to use autonomous conversational robots
T Uchida, T Minato, H Ishiguro – Proceedings of the Fourth International …, 2016 – dl.acm.org
… Many chatbot systems like ELIZA [20] are able to han- dle multi-turn dialogues driven by a huge dialogue database (eg, [8]); yet they do not seem to produce replies appropri … Flexible spoken dialogue system based on user models and dynamic generation of VoiceXML scripts …
Conversational Systems Research in Spain: A Scientometric Approach
D Griol Barres, Z Callejas Carrión – 2020 – digibug.ugr.es
… OR “Google assistant” OR “Google Home” OR “Google Now” OR hellomybot OR HeyMojo OR Houndify OR “HubSpot’s Chatbot Builder” OR … personal assistant” OR “voice actions” OR “voice interface” OR “voice user interface” OR voicebot OR Voiceflow OR VoiceXML OR VOIQ …
1. Overview of speech and language technologies
D Dahl, K Beals, R Fink, M Linebarger – Speech and Language …, 2015 – degruyter.com
Page 1. Deborah Dahl 1 Overview of speech and language technologies Abstract: This chapter provides a technical overview and description of the state of the art for current speech and language processing technologies. It …
Standardized representations and markup languages for multimodal interaction
R Tumuluri, D Dahl, F Paternò… – The Handbook of …, 2019 – dl.acm.org
… VoiceXML. An XML markup language for defining form-filling spoken dialog applica- tions, standardized by the W3C Voice Browser Working Group. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) … These standards include VoiceXML [Oshry et al …
Rapid prototyping and evaluation of dialogue systems for virtual humans
S Gandhe – 2014 – search.proquest.com
… dialogue systems compare to others. Chatbot systems like Eliza (Weizenbaum, 1966) or Alice (Wallace, 2003b) aim to imitate humans … Similar to chat- bots, virtual humans need to be human-like conversational partners, but typically their interactions are … For chatbots, it is often …
Statistical dialogue modelling
M Gašic – 2011 – cs.hhu.de
… There only currently exist text-based dia- logue systems, so-called chat-bots, that produce seemingly natural sentences but fail to sustain an intelligent … 1In the 2008 Loebner Prize competition, only three out of twelve judges mistook the winning chat-bot for a human …
Wizard of Oz experimentation for language technology applications: Challenges and tools
S Schlögl, G Doherty, S Luz – Interacting with Computers, 2015 – academic.oup.com
Abstract. Wizard of Oz (WOZ) is a well-established method for simulating the functionality and user experience of future systems. Using a human wizard to mimic.
KasaDaka: a sustainable voice-service platform
A Baart – 2017 – w4ra.org
… This choice is made because the goal is that the resulting system is to be integrated into the existing KasaDaka platform,which is mostly based on existing open- source software and standards, in which VoiceXML plays a 7https://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20/ Page 4. large role …
Spoken language understanding
M McTear, Z Callejas, D Griol – The Conversational Interface, 2016 – Springer
… 7, pattern matching is used in chatbot applications in which the user’s input is matched at the surface level against a … Handcrafted semantic grammars have been used widely in commercial VoiceXML-based applications to output a semantic interpretation directly from the ASR …
Speech and language technology for language disorders
K Beals, D Dahl, R Fink, M Linebarger – 2015 – degruyter.com
Page 1. Katharine Beals, Deborah Dahl, Ruth Fink and Marcia Linebarger Speech and Language Technology for Language Disorders Page 2. Speech Technology and Text Mining in Medicine and Health Care Series Editor Amy Neustein Published in the Series …
Socially situated affective systems
S Payr, P Wallis – Emotion-Oriented Systems, 2011 – Springer
… Tools for doing this include AIML (Artificial Intelligence Mark-up Language), initially used to write dialogue instructions for the ALICE chatbot and subsequently used on a large number of Web-based ECAs. In a similar vein, VoiceXML is a way of specifying conceptual web pages …
Anjishnu Kumar Amazon. com anjikum@ amazon. com
S Tucker, B Hoffmeister, M Dreyer, S Peshterliev… – assets.amazon.science
… At the other end of the spectrum, standards such as VoiceXML have existed since the early 2000s … Zhang, Zhouhan Lin, Sandeep Subramanian, Taesup Kim, Michael Pieper, Sarath Chandar, Nan Rosemary Ke, et al., “A deep reinforcement learning chatbot,” arXiv preprint arXiv …
Modelling of natural dialogues in the context of speech-based information and control systems
M Berg – 2014 – macau.uni-kiel.de
… “While VoiceXML-based dialogue systems typically consist of a set of well- defined VXML documents that are processed by a VXML-interpreter, state-of- the-art systems consist of a number of components of which each one typically comes with its own knowledge base …
Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems
Z Yu – 2017 – lti.cs.cmu.edu
… well as in the Amazon Alexa Prize competition. I implemented a social chatbot system under the TickTock framework applying the SI framework. The system is also one of the six chatbots for the shared tasks in the RE-WOCHAT workshop at two international conferences: LREC …
A proposal for the development of adaptive spoken interfaces to access the Web
D Griol, JM Molina, Z Callejas – Neurocomputing, 2015 – Elsevier
… and effective way of supporting customers [28]. Besides spoken and written language have become popular with the incorporation of chatbots for web-based customer support [29]. The spread of information through social web …
Google, Inc.(search)
ACM Books – dl.acm.org
… virtual assistant ar- chitectures offered by major IT firms, chatbots, and machine … agreed on the limitations of end-to-end trained chatbot systems, they … speech synthesis markup language), SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), VoiceXML (speech recognition), etc …
Dialogue Management in Conversational Systems: A Review of Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities
H Brabra, M Báez, B Benatallah… – … on Cognitive and …, 2021 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The growing interest in using the frame-based approach, on the other hand, pushed the industry to create VoiceXML, which has become later one of the W3C voice- related specifications. VoiceXML has been widely adopted …
Survey on evaluation methods for dialogue systems
J Deriu, A Rodrigo, A Otegi, G Echegoyen… – Artificial Intelligence …, 2021 – Springer
In this paper, we survey the methods and concepts developed for the evaluation of dialogue systems. Evaluation, in and of itself, is a crucial part during.
Turn-taking in conversational systems and human-robot interaction: a review
G Skantze – Computer Speech & Language, 2020 – Elsevier
A values-based dialogue strategy to build motivation for conversation with autonomous conversational robots
T Uchida, T Minato, H Ishiguro – 2016 25th IEEE International …, 2016 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Many chatbot systems like ELIZA [2] are able to handle a multi-turn dialogue driven by a huge dialogue database (eg, [3]). However … S. Ueno, T. Kawahara, and HG Okuno, “Flexible spoken dialogue system based on user models and dynamic generation of voicexml scripts,” in …
Institute of Communications Engineering Staff
M Bossert, R Fischer, W Minker, UC Fiebig… – it-Information …, 2021 – uni-ulm.de
… 307–318, 2021 Bibtex. M. Kraus, P. Seldschopf and W. Minker Towards the Development of a Trustworthy Chatbot for Mental Health Applications In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2021), 2021 Link to Document Bibtex. 2020 …
“An AI doesn’t need a gender “(but it’s still assigned one): paradigm shift of the artificially created woman in film
J Escudero Perez – Feminist Media Studies, 2020 – Taylor & Francis
… 2017. “Skeuomorphism on Conversational UIs” Chatbots Magazine. Accessed 27 July 2017 … 2005. “Voice User Interface Design for a Telephone Application Using VoiceXML.” In Asia-Pacific Web Conference Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 1058–1061.
Survey on evaluation methods for dialogue
JM Deriu, A Rodrigo, A Otegi, E Guillermo, S Rosset… – 2019 – digitalcollection.zhaw.ch
… It has been widely used to design dialogue systems and many toolkits are available such as the one from the Center for Spoken Language Understanding [Cole, 1999] or VoiceXML.6 The main issue is the rigid dialogue structure as well as the tendency to be error-prone …
Towards a persuasive dialog system supporting personal health management
V Götzmann – National Research Center, 2015 – isl.anthropomatik.kit.edu
… ent platforms; Ranging from the usage of computers (both locally and over the Internet via VoiceXML) over phone … Another much researched domain are chatbots … When thinking of how a chatbot might produce interesting conversations, the idea to use external datasources to …
A Hybrid Structured-Neural Dialog System for Automated Counseling
S Olafsson – 2021 – repository.library.northeastern.edu
… This is the distinction between a system truly capable of maintaining a conversation and a speech-enabled search engine, such as a question answering chatbot. An early example of a system resembling the IVR example was GUS (General Understander System) …