User Interface Service Software Developerís Guide - Hitech Projects

January 2008
Public
1.4.2.6 Run VoiceIO Server and GenSynthClient Application
Introduction
GenSynthClient application is developed to demonstrate the use of Response Generation
module of VoiceIO service in combination with the Speech Synthesis and Play methods.
Speech generation systems provide computers with the ability to generate natural language
sentences, which then can be synthesized and prompted to user. Current technology does not
yet support unconstrained speech generation: the ability to generate any sentence in any
context and prompt it accurately. To achieve reasonable generation accuracy and response
time, current approach constrains what the system generates by using templates for
describing the possible combinations of words and phrases used to form a response for a
given situation or application status.
The Natural Language Generation Template Format (NLGTF) defines a platform-independent,
vendor-independent way of describing one type of template, a rule based template similar to
the rule based grammars used for speech recognition and understanding. It uses a textual
representation that is readable and editable by both developers and computers.
Testing GenSyntClient application
Step 1
Register the BuildSentence.dll library, located in C:\Amigo\lib. From command line enter the
following command:
>regsvr32 BuildSentence.dll
Amigo IST-2004-004182 51/114