Papins- A Principle-and-Parameters Based Universal Voice Command Interpretation System

BCL proposes developing a portable, efficient,'principle-and-parameters' based Universal Voice Command Interface System called Papins that can operate and control computers and machinery with spoken English. By using off-the-shelf voice recognition system and a government and Binding (GB) Theory based natural language parser, BCL will demonstrate the feasibility of developing a system that can be ported from one machine to another with a switch of lexicon, GB parameters, and table of machine executable commands. Thus, with a change of environmental variables, the core Papins system can be used with computer systems and with machinery such as shipboard fire control system. In its Phase I work, BCL proposes developing a demonstration system for controlling UNIX based computers with spoken English.