| 摘要 |
A dialogue system adapted to carry out a conversation between a system and a human respondent. The system comprises a dialogue generator (2, 16) adapted to electronically generate output dialogue which is routed to the human respondent, wherein the output dialogue invites a response from the human respondent. The system also comprises means (5) for receiving input dialogue responsive to the output dialogue in the form of a speech signal from the human respondent. The system further comprises one or more recogniser stations (8-15), each for communicating input dialogue to a respective human recogniser for speech recognition and semantic analysis. Apparatus for generating a compressed version of an item of speech. The item of speech has a first length and the compressed version has a second length shorter than the first length. The item of speech comprises a speech signal having one or more audible intervals and one or more substantially silent intervals. The apparatus comprises means (22) for removing the or each substantially silent interval from the speech signal to generate the compressed version of the item of speech. |
