Generation of natural response timing using decision tree based on prosodic and linguistic information

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 609-612

  Takeuchi, Masashi ^a   Kitaoka, Norihide ^a   Nakagawa, Seiichi ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; LINGUISTICS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

DIALOG SYSTEMS; HUMAN-HUMAN INTERACTIONS; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; NATURAL RESPONSE; RESPONSE TIMINGS; SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TIMING GENERATORS; TURN-TAKING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009164596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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