From GEMINI to DiaGen: Improving Development of Speech Dialogues for Embedded Systems

In this paper DiaGen is presented, a tool that provides support in generating code for embedded dialogue applications. By aid of it, the dialogue development process is speeded up considerably. At the same time it is guaranteed that only well-formed and well-defined constructs are used. Having had its roots in the EU-funded project GEMINI, fundamental changes were necessary to adopt it to the requirements of the application environment. Additionally within this paper the basics of embedded speech dialogue systems are covered.