Optimizing endpointing thresholds using dialogue features in a spoken dialogue system

ACL-08: HLT - Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-10

  Raux, Antoine ^a   Eskenazi, Maxine ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; END-POINTING; FIXED THRESHOLD; NOVEL ALGORITHM; OFFLINE EVALUATION; SPEAKER CHARACTERISTICS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84857751453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1622064.1622066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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