Comparing synthesized versus pre-recorded tutor speech in an intelligent tutoring spoken dialogue system

FLAIRS 2006 - Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 509-514

  Forbes Riley, Kate ^a   Litman, Diane ^a   Silliman, Scott ^a   Tetrcault, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORA SUBSETS; DIALOGUE EFFICIENCY; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; VOICE QUALITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746036482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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