IDAS : Interactive Directory Assistance Service

In the EU funded IDAS project demonstrators providing a partially automated interactive telephone based directory assistance service are being developed by ten partners from Germany Greece Spain and Switzerland A rst phase was completed with limited prototypes built tested and demon strated showing the feasibility of such an application In a second phase improved demonstrators with higher directory coverage and more human like dialogues resulting in a higher automation rate are being built which will be integrated into small sized systems operating in real life