This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spoken language dialogue system. The method trains a discriminative reranker to select paraphrases that are predicted to sound natural when synthesized. The ranker is trained on realizer and synthesizer features in superv...

The ability of people, and of machines, to determine the position of a sound source in a room is well studied. The related ability to determine the orientation of a directed sound source, on the other hand, is not, but the few studies there are show people to be surprisingly skilled at it. This has bearing for studies of face-toface interaction and of embodied spoken dialogue systems, as sound ...

Past studies showed that in dialogue, interlocutors copy each others’ behavior in various ways. Copying on one grammatical level leads to increased chances of copying on other levels as well, a so-called ‘alignment boost’. The identification of specific alignment boosts offers important insights into the architecture of language comprehension and production because it highlights relations betwe...

This paper presents a new direction for managing the speech recognition errors of a computer with spoken dialogue functions. Our approach uses an implicit control of human voice prosody by focusing on human behavior characteristics, i.e., interactional synchrony at the prosodic level as one of errorprevention methods. In this paper, we introduce a simple experiment to examine the same prosodic ...

A current scenario to explain much of the atmospheric CO2 increase during the Glacial to Holocene climate transition requires the outgassing of a deep, old oceanic CO2 reservoir thought to be located in the Southern Ocean. In this scenario, CO2-rich and 14C-depleted subsurface Antarctic-sourced water, ventilates the thermocline where it is purged to the atmosphere in the equatorial regions, a v...

Abstract Sound generating human activities so-called “anthropogenic sound” have increased ambient sound levels considerably in aquatic habitats that are markedly diverse in time and space. Sound generating human activities is now recognized as a potential driver of environmental changes in marine habitats. Iran has 750 km coastline along the Caspian Sea located in the north and around 2250 km ...

along with improvement and expansion if computational communications and increasing access of various peoples to the internet and virtual social networks, a lot of theoretical endeavors have been spent for studying the internet and its political and social effects. during these attempts, the concept of public sphere in the framework of habermas's theory has a significant status. accordingl...