Course Manual
Spoken Language Systems Laboratory

Ed Kaiser, Andrew Cronk, Stephen Sutton, Don Colton

Center for Spoken Language Understanding
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology

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• Contents
• Course Introduction
  • Quick Summary
  • Welcome
  • The Rapid Prototyping Concept
  • Prerequisites
  • Further reading
  • Commonly Asked Questions and Other Things
• Lab: Pizza
  • Pizza: Welcome - The CSLUrp Canvas
  • Pizza: Ordering - Standard Pronunciations
  • Pizza: Drinks - Using Subdialogues
  • Pizza: Recording Prompts
  • Splicing Together Recorded Prompts
• Phonetic Symbols
  • IPA, Worldbet and OGIbet
• A Primer on Tcl
  • Syntax
  • Variables
  • Substitution
  • Decisions
  • Lists
  • Strings
  • Looping
  • Subroutines
  • I/O: File Input and Output in Tcl
  • Sourcing
• Lab: Dates, Times and Tcl
  • Date, Improved
• Applications: Counts and Votes
  • Nth Caller
  • Vote Tally
• Catalogue Ordering
• Static Grammars
• Dynamic Recognition
• Web Access
  • Getting the page
  • The of Art of Tcl'ing What You Want Out of the Web
• Improving Recognition
  • Adjusting Parameters
  • Custom Pronciations and Word Models
  • Building a Custom Repair Subdialogue
• Evaluation
• Appendix - CSLUrp Procedure Reference Pages
  • addBookMark
  • addDictionary
  • addHistory
  • bestCustomPronunciation
  • buildGrammarRecognizer
  • buildTreeRecognizer
  • createGrammarVocab
  • createTreeVocab
  • customPronunciation
  • dtmf
  • dtmf:init
  • extractLinks
  • findString
  • findStringN
  • formatList
  • formatText
  • formatWord
  • forward
  • geturl
  • goto
  • gotoBookMark
  • htmlClean
  • htmlForward
  • htmlTitle
  • playFile
  • playWave
  • readCount
  • readFile
  • record
  • selectLinks
  • tts
  • urlExpand
  • writeCount
• Index
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