Computer dialogue systems and user interface

  1. 2025-10-07: Introduction to dialogue systems
  2. 2025-10-14: Introduction to dialogue systems, cont.
  3. 2025-10-21: Introduction to dialogue systems, cont.
  4. 2025-10-28: Dialogue systems - present and future

    Let's watch! Successes, Challenges and Opportunities for Speech Technology in Conversational Agents by Shehzad Mevawalla, Amazon Alexa, a keynote speech at Interspeech 2020

    Ankieta: https://forms.gle/DiJy4x524PNDt78v9
    Projekt: www.wirtualizacja-w-narracji.pl
    Film: Sztuczna inteligencja: Dwie strony medalu

  5. 2025-11-04: Dialogue analysis - convergence of speakers in dialogue

    Download the dialog and annotate dialogue acts.

    Guidelines for using ISO standard 24617-2 by Harry Bunt, Tilburg University, 2019

  6. 2025-11-18: Dialogue scenario creation for student's dialogue system

    Recording a dialogue on ZOOM on two seperate channels:
    ZOOM -> Profil użytkownika (w prawym górnym rogu) -> Ustawienia
    Nagranie -> Zaznacz okienko: Nagrywaj osobny plik audio każdego uczestnika

    Apps for drawing diagrams: OpenOffice Draw, DrawIO: app.diagrams.net, Konipio Club: kinopio.club

  7. 2025-11-25: Dialogue scenario creation for student's dialogue system
  8. 2025-12-02: Annotation of student's dialogues

    Annotation on dialogue act level. Dialogue analysis in spreadsheet - simple statistics.

    Praat: TextGrid to Table
    Mark TextGrid file in Praat Objects -> Tabulate (Dialogue box: Include or not empty intervals)-> Down to table...
    Mark Table file in Praat Objects -> Save -> Save as tab-separate file.../Save as comma-separate file...

    Final report - useful information

  9. 2025-12-08: Creation of finite-state automaton
    1. Create a finite-state automaton: AutomataVerse, FinAuto, Finite State Machine Designer
    2. Write a report of your work
  10. 2026-01-13: Demo dialogue system creation
    Download demo dialogue system.
    How to run ASR and TTS with Python.
  11. 2026-01-20: Students' individual work on their dialogue systems and final reports
  12. 2026-01-22: Trip to Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
  13. 2026-01-27: Students' presentations of their dialogue systems and final reports
  14. 2026-02-03: Students' presentations of their dialogue systems and final reports
  15. 2026-02-04: Final test