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Artificial Passenger

An artificial passenger would use speech generation and a vehicle's audio system to converse with and monitor a driver for alertness, asking questions and telling jokes. If the artificial passenger detects signs of drowsiness through voice analysis or a camera evaluating facial expressions, it could take actions like opening windows, sounding an alarm, increasing music volume, or spraying the driver with water to wake them. One way to improve driver safety is developing voice-controlled systems instead of manual controls to reduce distraction. IBM has created conversational systems that allow natural speech to interact with a car's functions, improving the driver experience and safety by reducing cognitive workload. However, fully natural language understanding requires significant computing resources that typically exceed what car manufacturers include.

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Artificial Passenger

An artificial passenger would use speech generation and a vehicle's audio system to converse with and monitor a driver for alertness, asking questions and telling jokes. If the artificial passenger detects signs of drowsiness through voice analysis or a camera evaluating facial expressions, it could take actions like opening windows, sounding an alarm, increasing music volume, or spraying the driver with water to wake them. One way to improve driver safety is developing voice-controlled systems instead of manual controls to reduce distraction. IBM has created conversational systems that allow natural speech to interact with a car's functions, improving the driver experience and safety by reducing cognitive workload. However, fully natural language understanding requires significant computing resources that typically exceed what car manufacturers include.

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Artificial passenger ABSTRACT

An artificial passenger (AP) is a device that would be used in amotor vehicle to make sure that the driver stays awake. IBM has developed a prototype that holds a conversation with adriver, telling jokes and asking questions intended to determine whether the driver can respond alertly enough. Assuming the IBM approach, an artificial passenger would use a microphone for the driver and a speech generator and the vehicles audio speakers to converse with the driver. The conversation would be based on a personalized profile of the driver. A camera could be used to evaluate the drivers facial state and a voice analyzer to evaluate whether the driver was becoming drowsy. If a driver seemed to display too much fatigue, the artificial passenger might be programmed to open all the windows, sound a buzzer, increase background music volume, or even spray the driver with ice water. One of the ways to addressdriver safety concerns is to develop an efficient system that relies on voice instead of hands to control Telematicsdevices. It has been shown in various experiments that well designed voice control interfaces can reduce a driversdistraction compared with manual control situations. One of the ways to reduce a drivers cognitive workload is to allow the driver to speak naturally when interacting with a car system. This fact led to the development of Conversational Interactivity for Telematics (CIT) speech systems at IBM Research.CIT speech systems can significantly improve a driver-vehicle relationship and contribute to driving safety. But the development of full fledged Natural Language Understanding(NLU) for CIT is a difficult problem that typically requires significant computer resources that are usually not available in local computer processors that car manufacturer provide for their cars.

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