A rule-based backchannel prediction model using pitch and pause information

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3058-3061

  Truong, Khiet P ^a   Poppe, Ronald ^a   Heylen, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Backchannel; Backchannel prediction; Prosody; Rule based

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

BACK CHANNELS; CORPUS-BASED; CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES; IMPORTANT FEATURES; PREDICTION MODEL; PROSODY; RULE BASED; BACKCHANNEL PREDICTION; EVALUATION METHODS; MODEL-BASED OPC; PREDICTION MODELLING;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; FORECASTING;

EID: 79959852488     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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