Tasks for the exercise session on June 30, 2005:

-- part 1:  modularization -- make use of subroutines
(see the English Diamant tutorial Ivana sent last week)
to re-structure your dialogs so that blocks of
the same procedures (clarification sub-dialogs and
confidence scores input) are parametrically invoked

-- part 2:  connect speech recognizer

L&H is now installed with permissions to create users (-:

- start the L&H Lextool (you'll find it in windows->Start->
Programs->L&H...)

- register a user (User->Create)

- select languages for the user

- build your BNF grammar (see instructions for a small
grammar in the Diamant manual)

- make a context by importing the grammar (Context->Import)
a/ specify path to recognition grammar that is to be
used by the user you created, b/ give the new "context" a name

- (optional) to test the grammar, run the L&H Demonstrator and
see if L&H will recognize words (phrases) from your grammar

- once you have a user and context, in Diamant you
add a speech device (L&H ASR1600 on Randezvous connector)

- Diamant will find the user(s) + context(s) created in L&H

- in the graph input nodes, in the Input tab for the speech-in
device, you type "start" to start the recognizer -- btw, see also
Help of the Diamant ASRClient for other commands it accepts...
you may (-; want to try to experiment with setting the threshold
(see L&H client help) and returning alternatives:

{ numAlternatives = _SOME_NUMBER_ }
{ sendAlternatives = true }
{ sendAlternativesAsList = true }
{ treshold = 0.70 }
start

(each of these is typed on a separate input value line in
the Input tab)

- remember about the simulated recognition confidence scores
that are to be still inserted from the keyboard...

-- part 3:  test, test, test -- make sure your dialogs work:
imagine product release!