WIT: A Toolkit for Building Robust and Real-Time Spoken Dialogu Systems

This paper describes WIT, a toolkit for building spoken dialogue systems. WIT features an incremental understanding mechanism that enables robust utterance understanding and realtime responses. WIT's ability to compile domain-dependent system specifications into internal knowledge sources makes building spoken dialogue systems much easier than it is from scratch.

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