Simon listens PIC: 987058033 Grant Agree number: 231143 Project: ASTROMOBILE
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1. Introduction
To fulfil the mentioned task within the project ASTROMOBILE we have to work on the following different
sub-tasks with many requirements of different scientific requirements and not only technical issues like:
Signal processing
Speech modelling
Development of dialogues
Development of scenarios and
Programming
2. Signal processing
2.1. Microphone solutions
Three ways to a solution:
2.1.1. Using a wireless microphone system (direct
communication)
The customer wears a wireless microphone system and just has to call the robot, no matter in which room
he stays. This seems to be the easiest solution but there are many inconvenient problems in the practical
use. The user has to carry the equipment with him (microphone, wireless unit, batteries, etc.)
2.1.2. Using a simon client for mobile devices
The customer uses a mobile device like a mobile phone with installed simon client connected to the local
network. Currently there is no plan to develop a simon client in this project but maybe a simon client will
be available for android mobile phones within the next six months as a result of another project. Maybe it
could be good to use the mobile phone for a defined call zone and change the quality of communication
between user and robot in the moment that the robot stays in front of the user using a high quality
gooseneck microphone.
Requirements:
simon client for mobile devices
Adaption of simon to handle different microphones and activate them on demand
Adaption of simon to handle different acoustic models for different zones of signal processing
(e.g. comfort zone, call zone, communication zone)
