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.