Voice Agent for Communicating with Automobiles

Abstract

NTT DOCOMO developed a voice agent system which is intended to be used in automobiles. The system monitors vehicle's information such as brake operations, and spontaneously begins voice conversation when it detects the events such as "sudden brake". Moreover, users can begin talk with the system without tapping smartphone or ressing button on steering(Hands-free voice recognition). This paper describers the system's architecture, and process to generate system's responses.