Augmenting variation of system utterances using corpora in spoken dialogue systems

Proceedings of ASRU 2005: 2005 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 262-267

  Higashinaka, Ryuichiro ^a,c   Prasad, Rashmi ^b   Walker, Marilyn ^c  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SYNTACTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION TECHNIQUES; SENTENCE PLANNER; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 33846204379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2005.1566474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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