Prosodic Cues for Hesitation
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In our efforts to model spontaneous speech for use in, for example, spoken dialogue systems, a series of experiments have been conducted in order to investigate correlates to perceived hesitation. Previous work has shown that it is the total duration increase that is the valid cue rather than the contribution by either of the two factors pause duration and final lengthening. In the present experiment we explored the effects of F0 slope variation and the presence vs. absence of creaky voice in addition to durational cues, using synthetic stimuli. The results showed that variation of both F0 slope and creaky voice did have perceptual effects, but to a much lesser degree than the durational increase.
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