An Overview of the EURESCOM MIVA Project
Abstract
The goal of the MIVA project was to answer a number of fundamental questions concerned with the exploitation of speech technology enabled systems. The experimental service chosen was designed to help foreign people travelling in the country to find emergency and embassy numbers, country and area codes, useful numbers (directory service, country direct, etc.) and how to use Telecom and credit cards for placing calls. Services were implemented in each of the countries taking part and two stages of experimentation were undertaken. The first of these was a mono-lingual experiment carried out in each country to optimise performance for each country language combination. The second was a fully multi-lingual service in which each of these optimised services was re-implemented in all languages. All systems were evaluated over combinations of local and international environments. Correlations derived from a subset of the subjective and objective results were used to provide a predictive model of users opinions and the remaining subset of data used to test these predictions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADP010383
Entities
People
- Denis Johnston