Towards measuring continuous acoustic feature convergence in unconstrained spoken dialogues

Spyros Kousidis, David Dorran, Yi Wang, Brian Vaughan, Charlie Cullen, Dermot Campbell, Ciaran McDonnell, Eugene Coyle

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Abstract

Acoustic/prosodic feature (a/p) convergence has been known to occur both in dialogues between humans, as well as in human-computer interactions. Understanding the form and function of convergence is desirable for developing next generation conversational agents, as this will help increase speech recognition performance and naturalness of synthesized speech. Currently, the underlying mechanisms by which continuous and bi-directional convergence occurs are not well understood. In this study, a direct comparison between time-aligned frames shows significant similarity in acoustic feature variation between the two speakers. The method described (TAMA) constitutes a first step towards a quantitative analysis of a/p convergence.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 22 Sept 2008
Externally publishedYes
EventInterspeech 2008 - Brisbane, Australia
Duration: 22 Sept 200826 Sept 2008

Conference

ConferenceInterspeech 2008
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityBrisbane
Period22/09/0826/09/08

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