The additive effect of turn-taking cues in human and synthetic voice

Speech Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-35

  Hjalmarsson, Anna ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conversational interfaces; Human like interaction; Speech synthesis; Turn taking

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE EFFECTS; CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACE; HUMAN VOICE; HUMAN-LIKE INTERACTION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTIC COMPLETENESS; SPEECH PRODUCTION; TURN-TAKING;

FACE RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

HUMAN REACTION TIME;

EID: 78649334679     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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