Design, Implementation and Usage of Modern Voice Assistants

• Main Authors: Mikhail Belenko, Uliana Muratova, Pavel Balakshin, Nikita Burym
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: FRUCT 2020-04-01
• Series: Proceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT
• Subjects: dialogue systems; chat bots; voice assistants; requirements; asr; speech recognition; prototype; development; neural networks
• Online Access: https://www.fruct.org/publications/acm26/files/Bel.pdf

As part of this work, some dialogue systems and voice assistants have been studied. Based on their comparison, the basic requirements for creating chat bots were formulated. The well-known open source automatic speech recognition systems were studied and on the basis of comparison the most suitable for integration into the prototype of the chat-bot were selected. The results of the testing of the chat-bot prototype were presented. It is a stand-alone mobile application that works without an Internet connection and allows a dialogue on the day-today topics. The differences between regular and corporate chat-bots were highlighted, and the requirements to corporate chat-bots were collected. Other possible implementation options were briefly considered, for example, for people with speech-impaired voice.