Modeling therapist empathy through prosody in drug addiction counseling

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 213-217

  Xiao, Bo ^a   Bone, Daniel ^a   Van Segbroeck, Maarten ^a   Imel, Zac E ^b   Atkins, David C ^c   Georgiou, Panayiotis G ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral signal processing; Empathy; Motivational interviewing; Prosody; Quantization

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; QUANTIZATION (SIGNAL); SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DRUG ADDICTION; EMPATHY; KEY QUALITIES; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; PROSODY; QUANTIZATION; SPEECH SIGNALS;

DRUG THERAPY;

EID: 84910029523     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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