Talking to thimble jellies: Children's conversational speech with animated characters

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Oviatt, Sharon ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATED CHARACTERS; CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACE; CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; DISFLUENCIES; LEXICAL CONTENT; LONG-TERM GOALS; NOCV2; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; STEEPER SLOPES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85009070838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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