SPEECH-BASED MULTIMODAL INTERACTION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - RESEARCH AT THE THOMSON-CSF CORPORATE RESEARCH LABORATORIES

The Thomson-CSF Corporate Research Laboratories are investigating the issues of user-interface design, spoken and multimodal interaction des ign and realization in virtual environments. This paper describes our technical approach to speech-enabled multimodal virtual environments, based on our past achievements in the multimodal interaction domain, a nd presents our main supporting projects in this area. These projects involve augmented reality for maintenance, military situation building and assessment, and collaborative virtual environments.