Exploring Prosody in Interaction Control

Exploring Prosody in Interaction Control

This paper investigates prosodic aspects of turn-taking in conversation with a view to improving the efficiency of identifying relevant places at which a machine can legitimately begin to talk to a human interlocutor. It examines the relationship between interaction control, the communicative function of which is to regulate the flow of information between interlocutors, and its phonetic manife...

Exploring the Prosody-Syntax Interface in Conversations

The goal of this study is to investigate the structuring of speech in terms of prosodic boundaries in spontaneous dialogues in Swedish. In particular, the relation between boundaries as perceived by listeners, and their acoustic and linguistic realizations as uttered by speakers is examined.

The Acquisition of Audiovisual Prosody in Interaction

Prosody and empathic communication in psychotherapy interaction.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prosodic aspects of therapists' empathic communication. METHOD 70 audio-recorded sessions of cognitive psychotherapy and psychoanalysis were analysed using conversation analysis. RESULTS Two interactional trajectories where the therapists either validated the clients' emotions or challenged them were identified. The difference between these trajectories was not ...

Polyglot speech prosody control

Within a polyglot text-to-speech synthesis system, the generation of an adequate prosody for mixed-lingual texts, sentences, or even words, requires a polyglot prosody model that is able to seamlessly switch between languages and that applies the same voice for all languages. This paper presents the first polyglot prosody model that fulfills these requirements and that is constructed from indep...