CDD : Comprehensive Development Support Process

The central feature of the ATOM Spoken Dialogue SDK is CDD (Comprehensive Dialogue Development Process) which for the first time provides integrated support for the entire development cycle for spoken language applications, from data collection to usability testing.

CDD allows highly efficient, integrated development. Making changes to implementations after testing can be done quickly and efficiently to reduce the overall development time.

ATOM Spoken Dialogue SDK Development Process

The development of spoken dialogue systems typically consists of the following five steps: 1.Data Collection, 2. Transcription, 3. Grammar Development, 4. Dialogue Development, and 5. Usability Test.

CDD supports the entire development cycle including the 5 processes. The below illustration shows how.

�E�EOrange dotted line in the illustration indicates the coverage of ATOM Grammar Tool, which includes process 1: Data Collection, 2: Transcription, and 3: Grammar Development. ATOM Grammar Tool is included in all SDKs but also sold singularly.

1.Data Collection

Data collection is the process of collecting spoken natural language data for the purpose of system development, testing and tuning.

2.Transcription

Transcription is the process of converting into typewritten form a spoken language source, such as recorded speech.

3.Grammar Development

Grammar development is the process of specifying the words and patterns of words to be listened for by a speech recognizer.

4.Dialogue Development

Dialogue development is the process of specifying the actions an interaction manager should take.

5.Usability Test

Usability testing and tuning is an iterative process of incremental refinement of a spoken dialogue application.

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