Pacing spoken directions to suit the listener
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چکیده
On the basis of corpus analysis, we have made directiongiving dialog system which adjust the pace of dialog without using speech recognition. And we evaluate the naturalness of the resulting conversations by experiments. Then the system showed good performance. And also the possibility of prosody to compensate for the weak points of speech recognition.
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