Assignment 2 - Due Oct 6.
Part I: Test a Telephony Spoken Dialogue System
Call the Amtrack telephony dialogue system and write about your experience. Talk about it in the context of what was discussed in class.
Hand in: 1 paragraph
Part II: Introduction to the CSLU toolkit
The point of this mini-assignment is to introduce you to the CSLU toolkit's Rapid Application Developer (RAD) and to make sure that you can get the system installed on your personal computer. It's a very short assignment to familiarize you with the software you'll be using in the rest of the assignments.
- If you have a Windows PC that meets the hardware requirements, download and install the CSLU toolkit for your computer. See the CSLU toolkit info page for requirements & instructions. If you don't have access to a computer at home, you will be able to work on the assignment from the ArticuLab (Frances Searle, Rm 2-147). Make sure that if you're going to work from home, you don't wait until the last minute to install the software. Although it's unlikely that you'll run into any problems with the installation, leave time so that you can get help if you do.
- Go through RAD tutorials 1-3 and build a simple finite-state automaton dialogue system. Nothing more complicated than the applications shown in the tutorials is necessary, a few states will suffice. So we can verify that you did the assignment and didn't just copy the file, just create your own states and prompts. This should not take more than one hour, and can probably be done in much less time. If it'staking more than an hour, you're making too many states!