This project was carried out in the last half of 2007, funded by the Norwegian research Council. The main goal was to take care of the resources developed in the BRAGE-project, specifically regarding the demonstrators and language resources. The demonstrators are thoroughly documented and a machine platform is established to keep them running. Language resources developed in BRAGE are also thoroughly documented and prepared (transcribed) in order to ease further use and development.

The language resources consist of recordings and log files from Wizard-of-Oz experiments on a phone based service for bus information in the city of Trondheim, together with logs from real use of the demonstrators.

All demonstrators can be regarded as speech-centric dialogue systems, while some of them are using an additional modality, i.e. they are multimodal systems. The demonstrators are listed with a short description below:

• Buster: Speech based dialogue system providing information about bus transportation in the city of Trondheim using a phone based interface.
• DAter: Speech based dialogue system providing directory assistance using a phone based interface.
• Marvina WallGuide: Multimodal dialogue system located at the Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU. It provides visitors with information about employees and bus services to/from the campus using a large scale touch screen and speech I/O.
• Marvina PCGuide: Derivative of the WallGuide running on a laptop computer. It is well suited as a mobile demonstrator.
• Marvina MobileGuide: Version of the WallGuide running on any mobile/PDA supporting Java.
• MULTIPOP: A multimodal mobile/PDA based demonstrator for bus information in the Oslo area. It applies the “tap and talk” principle.

Contact:
Erik Harborg
Tel.: +47 73 59 31 39