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  <Title>A Spoken Dialogue Interface to a Geologist's Field Assistant</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We will demonstrate a spoken dialogue interface to a Geologist's Field Assistant that is being developed as part of NASA's Mobile Agents project. The assistant consists of a robot and an agent system which helps an astronaut wearing a planetary space suit while conducting a geological exploration. The primary technical challanges relating to spoken dialogue systems that arise in this project are speech recognition in noise, open-microphone, and recording voice annotations. This system is capable of discriminating between speech intended for the system and for other purposes.</Paragraph>
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