Interpreting Pauses and Ums at Turn Exchanges

An investigation of intra-turn pauses in spontaneous speech

In this study, pauses within speakers’ turns are described and analysed. Tentative results show that different pauses within a speaker’s turn might differ in length. Pause length variations over time in dialogues were investigated, and in 5 out of 6 dialogues, a statistically significant correlation was found between the speakers’ variations in pause length.

An analysis of silent pauses in simultaneous interpreting

The paper focuses on silent pauses observed in the productions of subjects involved in simultaneous interpreting tasks. Four bilingual subjects with various degrees of expertise in interpreting and various degrees of mastery of the languages involved (French and Spanish) have been recorded while interpreting utterances of French and Spanish talks. The source discourses had been perturbated by c...

An empirical study of pauses in Chinese-English simultaneous interpreting

Pauses...what pauses?

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Variability and stability in collaborative dialogues: turn-taking and filled pauses

Filled pauses have important and varied functions in turntaking behavior, and better understanding of this relationship opens new ways for improving the quality and naturalness of dialogue systems. We use a corpus of collaborative task oriented dialogues to provide new insights into the relationship between filled pauses and turn-taking based on temporal and acoustic features. We then explore w...