Yoshiaki Yamada


2019

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Real World Voice Assistant System for Cooking
Takahiko Ito | Shintaro Inuzuka | Yoshiaki Yamada | Jun Harashima
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation

This study presents a voice assistant system to support cooking by utilizing smart speakers in Japan. This system not only speaks the procedures written in recipes point by point but also answers the common questions from users for the specified recipes. The system applies machine comprehension techniques to millions of recipes for answering the common questions in cooking such as “人参はどうしたらよいですか (How should I cook carrots?)”. Furthermore, numerous machine-learning techniques are applied to generate better responses to users.