Is the speaker done yet? Faster and more accurate end-of-utterance detection using prosody

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2061-2064

  Ferrer, Luciana ^a   Shriberg, Elizabeth ^a   Stolcke, Andreas ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ADDING TIME; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DIALOG SYSTEMS; END-OF-UTTERANCE DETECTION; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; NEW APPROACHES; PROSODIC FEATURES; THRESHOLD-VALUE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84977834606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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