1. HOMMER: Holistic Model for Minority Education & Research Speech, Robotics, and Vision Laboratory Department of Computer and Information Sciences by Dr. Clement Allen May 5th, 2004

2. Speech, Robotics, and Vision Goals –Provide instructional and research laboratory for: Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 Autonomous Robotics Spoken Language Understanding Machine Vision

3. Speech, Robotics, and Vision Goals –Provide support for student assignments that are applied to these areas Examples: compiler for a robot language data structures speech processing JAVA class for robot controller –Provide support for researching problems in these areas Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004

4. Speech, Robotics, and Vision Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 Expose undergraduates to “exciting” technologies and research Research activities Teaching environment drive and assist impact

5. Speech Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 A visual development environment for creating speech applications. The tool generates a Java program that implements the behavior described by the developer. Based on OGI Speech Toolkit (CSLU) JSBB (Java Speech Builder)

6. Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 JSBB (Java Speech Builder) Startbook stop jim ask1mary found return tell ask2 ask3 bob who

7. Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 JSBB (Java Speech Builder) Undergraduate projects VoiceCal -A voice-based appointment scheduler Speech-based Music playerSpeech-based FAMU student information system

8. Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 JSBB (Java Speech Builder) Master’s Thesis VoiceUML

9. Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 JSBB (Java Speech Builder) Master’s Thesis SpeechJava FILEEDIT public class Registration { } Create a class called Registration

10. Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 ROBOTICS Recruited students Purchased robots Built robots Developed Java-based robot controller

11. Results Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 Speech interface to Java- based Robot Controller Developed using JSBB start choice forwardbackleftright robot continue

12. Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 move forwardturn right start choice forward backleftright robot continue

13. Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 Speech, Robotics, and Vision Future Work Extend JSBB Improve Robotics capabilities Develop and incorporate vision framework Develop course resources

14. Department of Computer and Information SciencesMay 5th, 2004 Speech, Robotics, and Vision Collaborations Dr. Juan Gilbert Human Centered Computing Lab Auburn University Dr. Emanual Collins Department of Mechanical Engineering FAMU/FSU College of Engineering