A distributed cloud-based dialog system for conversational application development

Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Alexei V. Ivanov, Keelan Evanini
2015 Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue  
We have previously presented HALEFan open-source spoken dialog system-that supports telephonic interfaces and has a distributed architecture. In this paper, we extend this infrastructure to be cloudbased, and thus truly distributed and scalable. This cloud-based spoken dialog system can be accessed both via telephone interfaces as well as through web clients with WebRTC/HTML5 integration, allowing in-browser access to potentially multimodal dialog applications. We demonstrate the versatility of
more » ... the system with three conversation applications in the educational domain.
doi:10.18653/v1/w15-4658 dblp:conf/sigdial/RamanarayananSI15 fatcat:x3obblgwtvf37h3t2zl2k5a6uq