CI-P: Collaborative Research: RUSD - Real User Speech Data for the spoken dialog community

最近，随着Siri(TM)的出现，人们对口语对话研究产生了新的兴趣。这款应用激发了许多人的想象力，他们开始相信与自动助理交谈是可能的，也是有用的。在不久的将来，每个人都将需要使用语音与谷歌眼镜和智能手表等不能使用键盘的技术进行交流。使用语音还将使更多的人获得技术，例如老年人和残疾人。它将作为经济动力，刺激新技术和以技术为基础的产品。真实用户语音数据项目和社区基础设施(RUSD)的愿景是，它将通过引发来自真实用户的口语对话数据流的创建、通过分发数据以及通过帮助研究人员访问口语对话平台来服务于口语对话社区，在那里他们可以将他们的发现与其他人的结果进行比较。它将把高中生和本科生(他们一生都与技术生活在一起，可以想象他们想要如何与技术交谈)与能够实施他们想法的技术专家联系起来。Rusd将通过帮助该社区使用这些新颖和有用的语音应用程序来记录和收集其用户的语音，同时服务于口语对话社区的需求。RUSD将帮助将这些语音数据分发给社区。它对于制造成功的系统至关重要，因为它将被用来对它们进行再培训(增加数据使统计表示更准确)、评估它们(比较系统有助于发现哪些新技术改进了系统)和创建新的系统。以这种方式，RUSD的贡献将导致更高质量的研究和语音技术的广泛使用。目前的规划项目致力于与研究界讨论未来的RUSD，其中包括一场实践挑战比赛，以最终确定RUSD的功能要求，并准备向CEISE研究基础设施计划提交一份全面的RUSD提案。RUSD项目和社区基础设施的总体目标正在引发新的倡议，将为社区生成数据和研究平台。它将把高中生和本科生对语音技术的新颖、变革性应用的想法与当前口语对话社区的技术联系起来。生成的真实应用程序将提供来自真实用户的数据流，这些用户对重复使用某个应用程序感兴趣，因为这在某种程度上对他们有帮助(解决某些任务或娱乐他们)。这将使研究人员能够使他们的系统更加健壮。口语对话中尚未解决的基础研究问题包括：噪声中的信号处理、识别困难的用户组(如老年人和非本族语者)、复杂对话的管理(即在会议中和与代理人)以及元语言信息的自动使用，如韵律。RUSD将帮助支持新的应用程序，以便它们可以用作研究平台，在那里可以探索这些和其他问题。Dialog研究中心(DialRC)已经为一个应用程序提供了这项服务，We‘s Go，它提供匹兹堡的公交信息。从那时起，研究得到了发展，需要在更具挑战性的领域建立真正的对话系统。一个站点不可能创建并运行所有这些应用程序。RUSD可以帮助社区创建这些系统，确保它们满足社区的需求，并就统一的基础设施达成共识。RUSD的规划阶段包括：(1)询问口语对话社区，以确定其未来的需求；(2)进行挑战，以确定对产生真实数据流和平台的兴趣；(3)收集可用于挑战系统的工具，并确保它们的文档；(4)为RUSD的设计和实施准备向CEISE研究基础设施计划的完整提案。

New interest in spoken dialog research has recently been generated by the advent of SIRI(TM). This application has ignited the imagination of many who have begun to believe that speaking to automatic assistants is possible and useful. In the near future everyone will need to use speech to communicate with technology such as Google Glass and smart watches which can't use a keyboard. Using speech will also give wider access to technology, for example to the elderly and the disabled. It will serve as an economic motivator, spurring new technology and technology-based products. The vision of the Real User Speech Data project and community infrastructure (RUSD) is that it will serve the spoken dialog community by sparking the creation of streams of spoken dialog data from real users, by distributing data and by helping researchers access spoken dialog platforms where they can compare their findings with those of others. It will link high school and undergraduate students (who have lived with the technology all of their lives, and can imagine how they would like to talk to technology), with technology experts who can implement their ideas. RUSD will serve the needs of the spoken dialog community at the same time by helping this community to use these novel and useful speech applications to record and collect speech of their users. RUSD will help to distribute this speech data to the community. It is essential in making successful systems as it will be used to retrain them (adding data makes the statistical representations more precise) and to assess them (comparing systems helps find which novel techniques improve the systems) and to create new ones. In this manner, RUSDs contribution will lead to both higher quality research and to widespread use of speech technology. The current planning project is dedicated to the discussion of the future RUSD with the research community which includes a hands-on Challenge contest to finalize RUSD's functional requirements, and to the preparation of a comprehensive RUSD proposal to the CISE Research Infrastructure Program. The overarching goal for the RUSD project and community infrastructure is sparking new initiative that will generate data and research platforms for the community. It will relate high school and undergraduate students' ideas for novel, transformational applications of speech technology with the current spoken dialog community's technology. The resulting real applications will provide the streams of data from real users who are interested in repeatedly using an application because it helps them in some way (solving some task, or entertaining them). This will allow researchers to make their systems more robust. Unsolved basic research issues in spoken dialog include: signal processing in noise, recognition of groups of "difficult" users (like the elderly and non-native speakers), management of complex dialogs (i.e. in meetings and with agents), and the automatic use of meta-linguistic information such as prosody. RUSD will help support new applications so that they can be used as research platforms where these and other issues can be explored. The Dialog Research Center (DialRC) has provided this service for one application, Let's Go, which gives bus information in Pittsburgh. Since then research has evolved, necessitating real dialog systems in more challenging areas. One site cannot create and run all of them. RUSD can help the community to create these systems, insuring that they meet the needs of the community and obtaining consensus on a unified infrastructure. The planning phase of RUSD includes: (1) querying the spoken dialog community to define its needs going forward; (2) conducting a Challenge to determine interest in producing real streams of data and platforms; (3) gathering tools that can be used for the Challenge systems and ensure their documentation; (4) preparing the full proposal to the CISE Research Infrastructure Program for RUSD's design and implementation.