VAIPro

Although electronic devices are common in our daily lives now and used for all kind of tasks and information searches, the interaction is still mainly done via (touch) screens, keyboards or a mouse. New kinds of human-machine interfaces have appeared providing more user friendly interaction with the devices, albeit still far away from the communication that we are used to when we interact with other persons. The goal of this project is to make a major step forward in human-machine interaction and ease of information gathering by improving the quality and integration of current human-like communication technologies, such as speech recognition and text-to-speech, 3D animation, natural language processing (NLP), dialogue systems and knowledge & expert base search. The technologies will be provided as individual components with standardised interfaces via a common platform in order to reduce the development time significantly from several months to several days for application and service providers to generate a virtual artificial intelligent professional (VAIPro).