Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System for Virtual Reality Call for Fire Training

Abstract

We present an evaluation of a spoken dialogue system that engages in dialogues with soldiers training in an immersive Call for Fire (CFF) simulation. We briefly describe aspects of the Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System, and the Radiobot-CFF dialogue system, which can engage in voice communications with a trainee in call for fire dialogues. An experiment is described to judge performance of the Radiobot CFF system compared with human radio operators. Results show that while the current version of the system is not quite at human-performance levels, it is already viable for training interaction and as an operator-controller aid.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA461549

Entities

People

  • Antonio Roque
  • Ashish Vaswani
  • Bill Millspaugh
  • Charles Hernandez
  • David R Traum
  • Susan M. Robinson

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artillery
  • Artillery Fire
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Dialogue Systems
  • Language
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Recognition
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Trainees
  • Training

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.