entrainment in speech preceding backchannels

... potential en- trainment have been studied in the literature, en- trainment in turn-taking behaviors has received lit- tle attention. In this paper we examine entrainment in a novel turn-taking dimension: ... examine a novel form of en- trainment, entrainment in BPCs – characteristics of speech segments that are followed by backchannels from the interlocutor. We employ three measures of entrainment ... of BPC entrainment to dialogue. 5 Conclusion In this paper we discuss the role of entrainment in turn-taking behavior and its impact on conversa- tional coordination and task success in the Columbia Games...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... seemed so little point in beating about the bush. (J. Wain) 2. There's no point in having servants if you abandon the conventions. (/. Murdoch) 3. "No point in going after the same ... not much, not any) point in doing something — there is no (little, not much) sense (use) in doing something 1. it could be only a matter of minutes before Mr. Blearney finished his story and ... — no longer be in touch with In (out of) touch (with) — in (not in) social or intellectual relation (with) or correspondence (with) to keep in touch with — to contact, to get in touch with 1....

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2013, 11:15

... the string including errors from the String- Database (the former string is referred to as the Similar-String, and the latter as the Error-String). Finally, the correction is made using the ... error-block in the Error-String, am found in the Similar- String, take out the string (denoted C) between A and B in 1 For detecting errors in Japanese sentences, the method using the probability ... errors. In integrating recognition and translation into a speech translation system, the development of the following processes is therefore important: (1) detection of errors in speech recognition...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... of/d/before/y /in didyou (5b) Reduction of unstressed/u/to schwa in) ,~u (5c) Flapping of intervocalic /t/ in hit. it (5d) Reduction of schwa and devoicing of/u /in to (5e) Reduc:ion of geminate/t /in ... of finite-state parsing techniques at the phonetic level in order to exploit certain classes or" contextual constraints. -In the second section, the parsing framework is extended in order ... lable, in W. Dressier (ed.) Phonologica 1980. Proceedings of the Fourth International Phonology Meeting 1981. 15. Kiparsky, P., Metrical Structure, Assignments in Cyclic, Linguistic Inquiry,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... measures of entrainment capture different aspects of dialogue coordination and that exploring various formulations of entrainment de- serves future attention. 3.3 Dialogue coordination The coordination ... had a high inclination for empathy (understanding the point of view of the other) entrained to a greater extent than others. Reitter et al. (2007) also found that degree of entrainment in lexical ... correlates with task success and minimal interruptions—important goals of SDS. In future work we will explore the consequences of system entrainment to SDS users in helping systems achieve these goals,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... ambiguity in finding the best matching string. The performance can further be improved if the acoustic matching information used in the recognition process is incorporated into the language decoding ... obtained by expanding all the non-terminals into the corresponding vocabulary words and each word in terms of phonetic units. Finally a matching between the string of phones describing the ... non-terminals 2. The Levenshtein distance (Levenshtein, 1966) between two strings is defined as the minimum number of editing operations (substitutions, deletions, and insertions) for transforming...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... avoids such inefficiency, in principle, by allowing each component, to communicate with all other components in the system. However, controlling the flow of information and specifying the interfaces ... has gone into specifying global scheduling heuristics for maintaining an agenda of knowledge sourcc activation records m blackboard system~, and this has sometimes led to treating the ... diagram). These interactive channels are bidirectional, allowing one component to request certain highly restrtcted kinds of information from another component and, in principle, can connect...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... split the data into 90% training and 10% testing sets for 5-cross validation. MOCHA and TORGO data are never combined in a single training set due to dif- fering EMA recording rates. In all cases, ... component takes into account var- ious physiological aspects of human speech production, including intergestural and in- terarticulator co-ordination and timing (Nam and Saltzman, 2003; Goldstein and ... vocal tract during speech. In EMA, the speaker is placed within a low-amplitude electromagnetic field pro- duced within a cube of a known geometry. Tiny sensors within this field induce small electric...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 23:20

... for concatenative speech synthesis. In Proceedings of Eurospeech, volume 2, pages 607–610. Ivan Bulyko and Mari Ostendorf. 2001. Unit selec- tion for speech synthesis using splicing costs with weighted ... concatenative speech synthesis system. In Proceedings of ICASSP’96, volume 1, pages 373–376, Atlanta, GA. Frederick Jelinek. 1976. Continuous speech recog- nition by statistical methods. IEEE Proceedings, 64(4):532–556. Slava ... Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany. Mehryar Mohri, Fernando C. N. Pereira, and Michael Riley. 1996. Weighted automata in text and speech processing. In Proceedings of the 12th European...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20

... Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate in Speech Recognition Klaus Zechner and Alex Waibel Language Technologies Institute ... putting efforts into further training. • alternative language models: An idea for im- provement here is to integrate skipped words into the LM (similar to the modeling of noise in speech) . ... 1996). Since we cannot build on semantic knowledge for constructing parsers in the way it is done for lim- ited domains when attempting to parse spontaneous speech in unrestricted domains, we...

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Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 14:20

... speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts and finally indirect speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts. The proportion of individual types in the play is outlined in the following ... direct speech acts, indirect speech acts motivated by direct speech acts, direct speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts and finally indirect speech acts motivated by indirect speech ... interesting from the point of view of indirectness. The play contains four types of exchanges: direct speech acts motivated by direct speech acts, indirect speech acts motivated by direct speech...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 10:37

... quality of speech engines. Finally, we demonstrate a human-computer interaction software in T-Engine embedded system. I. INTRODUCTION In this paper, we are concerned with the combination of speech ... layout III. PROPOSED METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION IN T-ENGINE Fig.2. Speech recognition in T-Engine The UDA1342 audio codec in T-Engine provides a minimal sampling frequency (SF) of 44100Hz. ... as follows. In Section 2, a short introduction of T-Engine is given, while a method proposed for speech recognition in T-Engine is provided in Section 3, following is Vietnamese speech synthesis...

Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2013, 16:05

... pronoun in the objective case shouldn’t be used in subject position. For example, it is very informal to say “Him singing in the shower is an interesting hobby”. c. Bare- infinitive nominal clause ... When the to of the infinitive is omitted, it is called bare- infinitive. The bare- infinitive nominal clause is used when the infinitive clause supplies a predication corresponding to an use of ... any early repayment charges. finite cl (that- cl) nonfinite cl (to infinitive ) finite cl (that- cl) finite cl (yes- no interrogative cl) nonfinite cl (to infinitive 7 3.4. Appositive (major...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2013, 14:57

... SPEECH Imperatives Direct speech Indirect speech Affirmative Imperative V 1 + …… Mike said to Henry, “Come in, please.” S+ told / asked B + to + V 1 + …… Mike told Mary to come in. Negative Imperative Don’t ... Last week / year → The next/ following day → The day before → The following week/ year → The previous week / year B. Practice: I. Change into reported speech: (Imperatives: Câu mệnh lệnh) 1. ... She said to them, “Can you go fishing with me?” III. Change into reported speech: (Advice: Câu khuyên nhủ) 11.The doctor said to the patient, “You should stay in bed today.” 12.The teacher...

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