Title
Extending Discrete Verbal Commands with Continuous Speech for Flexible Robot Control.
Abstract
Speech is a direct and intuitive method to control a robot. While natural speech can capture a rich variety of commands, verbal input is poorly suited to finer grained and real-time control of continuous actions such as short and precise motion commands. For these types of operations, continuous non-verbal speech is more suitable, but it lacks the naturalness and vocabulary breadth of verbal speech. In this work, we propose to combine the two types of vocal input by extending the last vowel of a verbal command to support real-time and smooth control of robot actions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this novel hybrid speech input method in a beverage-pouring task, where users instruct a robot arm to pour specific quantities of liquid into a cup. A user evaluation reveals that hybrid speech improves on simple verbal-only commands.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3290607.3312791
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
continuous control, human robot interaction, voice inputs
Robot control,Robotic arm,Input method,Computer science,Naturalness,Human–computer interaction,Vowel,Robot,Vocabulary,Human–robot interaction
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5971-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Naoya Yoshimura101.69
Hironori Yoshida221.38
Fabrice Matulic312511.19
Takeo Igarashi43813.11