Proposal of a learning system by spoken dialogue with museum exhibits

Abstract

The number of people using the museum has decreased compared to the past and is flat. In order to have more people visit and enjoy museums this paper proposes a learning system by spoken dialogue with museum exhibits. We created the environment where people could talk with exhibits by using speech recognition technology and way to play string telephone. We also analyze effect of that environment. The results showed that more than half of people who are in that environment replied that they enjoyed.These results provide a possibility that talking with exhibits appeals to viewer.