The ability to interact with machines using natural human language is becoming not just commonplace, but expected. The next step is not just text interfaces, but speech interfaces and not just with computers, but with all machines including robots. In this paper, we chronicle the recent history of this growing field of spoken dialogue with robots and offer the community three proposals, the first focused on education, the second on benchmarks, and the third on the modeling of language when it comes to spoken interaction with robots. The three proposals should act as white papers for any researcher to take and build upon.

翻译：用自然人类语言与机器交互的能力正变得不仅普遍，而且成为预期。下一步不仅是文本界面，还包括语音界面，并且不仅限于与计算机交互，而是与包括机器人在内的所有机器交互。本文追溯了与机器人进行口语对话这一新兴领域近年来的发展历程，并向社区提出三项建议：第一项聚焦教育，第二项聚焦基准测试，第三项聚焦与机器人口语交互中语言建模的问题。这三项建议应作为可供任何研究者采纳并进一步发展的白皮书。