1. MAJORDOME Gérard CHOLLET, Richard CROCE, Laurence LIKFORMAN,
Dijana PETROVSKA-DELACRETAZ,
Pascal VAILLANT
ENST/CNRS-LTCI 46 rue Barrault PARIS cedex 13

2. Majordome Outline What is it ? What it does for you ?
Research and application topics:
The SIROCCO project
The EUREKA !2340 MAJORDOME project
VoIP, VoiceXML, Human-Computer Interaction
Perspectives

3. Majordome is a distributed Personal Digital Assistant
It is your digital slave. It is personal. It remembers everything that you told him.
It uses resources from you mobile (wireless) device, from your home, from your office, from the Internet, from the environment, …
You interact with him using voice, pen, graphics, …

4. Interactions with your Majordome
Majordome recognizes your identity, your voice, your handwriting, ...
His speech recognizer is adapted to your voice,
His handwriting recognizer is adapted to your writing style,
He can speak to you,
He can display information for you,
He can talk with other persons either locally or over the phone.

5. What Majordome does for you ?
Answers your phone,
Receives and interpret your faxes, your s, …
Supplements your memory (address book, agenda, bookmarks, alarm clock, health record, bank account, documentation, …)
Serves as an interface between you and the (digital) world,
Searches the web, internet forums, …
Controls your home, your car, your children, your parents, …

6. A framework: A L I S P A utomatic L anguage I ndependent S peech
P rocessing
with applications in
Speech Coding, Synthesis, Recognition,
Speaker Verification and Language Identification

7. Unlimited Vocabulary Speech Recognition
SIROCCO project
Unlimited Vocabulary Speech Recognition
INRIA (IRISA et LORIA), LIA, IRIT, ENST-LTCI

8. SIROCCO Unlimited vocabulary speech recognition system
French lexicon (MathLex) with 64kwords (AUF task)
Feature extraction with Spro (G. Gravier)
Context-dependent HMM phone models
Word pronunciation graph
Uses CMU-Toolkit for Language modeling
Beam search for word hypothesis
Rescoring of word hypothesis by A*

9. Unified Messaging System
Holistique
EDF
«MAJORDOME»
Unified Messaging System
Eureka Projet no 2340
D. Bahu-Leyser, G. Chollet, R. Croce, K. Hallouli , J. Kharroubi, D. Kofman,
L. Likforman, E. Matta-Sanchez, D. Petrovska, M. Sigelle, P. Vaillant, F. Yvon

10. Participants speech : G. Chollet, R. Croce, J. Kharroubi, D. Petrovska
fax : K. Hallouli, L. Likforman, Marc Sigelle
language : P. Vaillant, F. Yvon
platform : D. Kofman, E. Matta-Sanchez, R. Croce
ergonomy : D. Bahu-Leyser

11. Majordome’s Functionalities
Speaker verification
Dialogue
Routing
Updating the agenda
Automatic summary
Voice
Fax
MAJORDOME (

12. Overview of Majordome Background tasks (server-side only):
sorting and filtering messages from different sources ( , voice, fax, SMS,…);
extracting relevant information for reporting to user (names of senders, subject,…).
Dialogue with the user: over phone or Web.
The system presents the state of the mailbox, the type of messages, their sender, subject, and may sum them up or read them on request;
The users access their mailbox, addressbook, time schedule, or URIs (Web addresses).

13. Voice technology in Majordome
Server side background tasks:
continuous speech recognition applied to voice messages upon reception
Detection of sender’s name and subject
User interaction:
Identification of the speaker (and Verification if necessary)
Speech recognition (receiving users’ commands through voice interaction)
Text-to-speech synthesis (reading text summaries, s or faxes)

14. Distance Learning Service
Voice Over IP Platform
VTHD
Renater
Unisphere
ERX-700
1Gbps (FO Interne)
ENST-Paris
RTC/RNIS
Intranet GK
PBX GW
IPVR (
1Gbps
Cisco Catalyst 6507
Salle C-234
Salle PBX
Network /11
Video
Server
Distance Learning Service
Network /11
Network /11
Visio conference

15. ‘Majordome’ partners

16. Majordome / NetCentrex project
PABX /Gateway ENST
-Call Control Server
-Application Server
Calling person
NetCentrex #
Usual #
IP-VR NetCentrex
Recorder Machine
No response
Is the called
person here ?
Usual user called
NetCentrex user
called
Vocal

17. Majordome / NetCentrex project
PABX /Gateway ENST
-Call Control Server
-Application Server
Calling person
NetCentrex #
Usual #
Voice Interactive call
No response
MAJORDOME
IP-VR NetCentrex
Speaker verification
Dialogue
Vocal
Routing
Updating the agenda
Automatic summary
Usual user called
NetCentrex user
called

18. Perspectives
Add Vision, Hearing and Understanding to Mobile Terminals (UMTS)
Multimedia for Distance Education and Conference Indexing
Semantic Web,
‘Universal Networking Language’
‘Smart Home’, ‘Smart Car’, ‘Smart Office’

19. Perspectives
The application context of the Majordome project could be of interest to COST-278.
The Majordome/NetCentrex platform could be made available to interested partners.
HTK, ISIP and SIROCCO softwares are available as freeware. One of them will be used on the NetCentrex platform.