Towards measuring continuous acoustic feature convergence in unconstrained spoken dialogues

Spyros Kousidis; David Dorran; Yi Wang; Brian Vaughan; Charlie Cullen; Dermot Campbell; Ciaran McDonnell; Eugene Coyle

Towards measuring continuous acoustic feature convergence in unconstrained spoken dialogues

Spyros Kousidis, David Dorran, Yi Wang, Brian Vaughan, Charlie Cullen, Dermot Campbell, Ciaran McDonnell, Eugene Coyle

School of Media

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Abstract

Acoustic/prosodic feature (a/p) convergence has been known to occur both in dialogues between humans, as well as in human-computer interactions. Understanding the form and function of convergence is desirable for developing next generation conversational agents, as this will help increase speech recognition performance and naturalness of synthesized speech. Currently, the underlying mechanisms by which continuous and bi-directional convergence occurs are not well understood. In this study, a direct comparison between time-aligned frames shows significant similarity in acoustic feature variation between the two speakers. The method described (TAMA) constitutes a first step towards a quantitative analysis of a/p convergence.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ninth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Pages	1692-1695
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	INTERSPEECH 2008 - 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - Brisbane, QLD, Australia Duration: 22 Sep 2008 → 26 Sep 2008

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
ISSN (Print)	2308-457X

Conference

Conference	INTERSPEECH 2008 - 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane, QLD
Period	22/09/08 → 26/09/08

Keywords

Acoustic-prosodic convergence
Dialogue speech

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Kousidis, S., Dorran, D., Wang, Y., Vaughan, B., Cullen, C., Campbell, D., McDonnell, C., & Coyle, E. (2008). Towards measuring continuous acoustic feature convergence in unconstrained spoken dialogues. In Ninth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 1692-1695). (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

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Towards measuring continuous acoustic feature convergence in unconstrained spoken dialogues. / Kousidis, Spyros; Dorran, David; Wang, Yi et al.
Ninth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. 2008. p. 1692-1695 (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

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Kousidis S, Dorran D, Wang Y, Vaughan B , Cullen C, Campbell D et al. Towards measuring continuous acoustic feature convergence in unconstrained spoken dialogues. In Ninth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. 2008. p. 1692-1695. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

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