Snackbot: The Process to Engage in Human-Robot Conversation

While delivering snacks, Snackbot’s need to actively engage in conversation with the customers and other individuals, provides an approach for verbal interaction. This paper addresses the verbal human-robot interaction between humans and robots using a speech recognizer named Sphinx-4. Sphinx-4, written entirely in Java is capable of recognizing predetermined words and sentences. Thereby, allowing robots to actively engage in conversations using spoken language.