  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.
