Towards flexible representations for analysis of accomodation of temporal features in spontaneous dialogue speech

Spyros Kousidis; David Dorran; Ciaran McDonnell; Eugene Coyle

Towards flexible representations for analysis of accomodation of temporal features in spontaneous dialogue speech

Spyros Kousidis, David Dorran, Ciaran McDonnell, Eugene Coyle

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Abstract

Current advances in spoken interface design point towards a shift towards more "human-like" interaction, as opposed to the traditional "push-to-talk" approach. However, human dialogue is characterized by synchrony and multi-modality, and these properties are not captured by traditional representation approaches, such as turn succession. This paper proposes an alternative representation schema for recorded (human) dialogues, which employs per frame averages of speaker turn distribution, in order to inform further analyses of temporal features (pauses and overlaps) in terms of inter-speaker accommodation. Preliminary results of such analyses are provided.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2163-2166
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2009 - Brighton, United Kingdom Duration: 6 Sep 2009 → 10 Sep 2009

Keywords

Representation
Spoken dialogue systems
Synchrony

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Towards flexible representations for analysis of accomodation of temporal features in spontaneous dialogue speech. / Kousidis, Spyros; Dorran, David; McDonnell, Ciaran et al.
In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2009, p. 2163-2166.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

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Towards flexible representations for analysis of accomodation of temporal features in spontaneous dialogue speech

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