Coupling dialogue and prosody computation in spoken dialogue generation

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Nakatanid, Christine H ^a,b   Chu Carroll, Jennifer ^b  

^a NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; DIALOGUE STRATEGY; PROSODIC STRUCTURE; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; SPEECH GENERATION; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; THEORY AND PRACTICE; TYPE SELECTION;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 85009115356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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