Speech for Robotics

该奖项支持马里兰大学为期1.5天的研讨会，该研讨会汇集了来自学术界和工业界的具有语音处理、自然语言处理和机器人专业知识的工程师和科学家，专注于语音科学在开发未来可与任何人口和环境中的人类有效交流的具体化机器人技术中应发挥的关键作用。研讨会的结果将是一份报告，其中包含动机良好的跨学科研究机会，以促进有益于社会的社交机器人应用的发展。解决用于人与机器人交互的口语处理问题将有助于允许社交机器人的广泛应用，包括在家庭、学校、医院和工作场所与人一起工作。研讨会的第一天将包括几个平行的分组，他们关注各种主题，包括社交机器人的应用，我们可以从对话代理中学到什么，改善机器人的口语交流，研究人员之间的共享资源和任务，学生的培训，以及学术界和工业界研究人员之间的合作。第二天将包括所有参与者讨论分组会议的结果，并记录在未来5到10年内推动该领域向前发展的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a 1.5-day workshop at the University of Maryland that brings together engineers and scientists from academia and industry with expertise in speech processing, natural language processing and robotics to focus on the critical role that speech science should play in developing future embodied robotic technologies that can communicate effectively with humans of any demographics and in any environment. The result of the workshop will be a report containing well-motivated interdisciplinary research opportunities to promote the development of social robot applications that are beneficial to society. Solving the problem of spoken language processing for human to robot interaction will help in allowing a broad application of social robots including working with and alongside people in homes, schools, hospitals and workplaces.The first day of the workshop will include several parallel breakout groups that look at a variety of topics including the applications for social robots, what lessons we can learn from conversational agents, improving the spoken language communication of robots, shared resources and tasks across researchers, training of students, and collaboration between researchers in academia and those in industry. The second day will include all participants in a discussion of the results from the breakout sessions and the documentation of opportunities to move the field forward during the next 5 to 10 years.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.