Using responsive prosodic variation to acknowledge the user's current state

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2431-2434

  Ward, Nigel G ^a   Escalante Ruiz, Rafael ^a  

^a University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence; Emotion; Pace; Quiz; Sensitive; Social interaction; Tutorial; User modeling

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; USER MODELING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450185438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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