We investigate factors that affect speech overlaps in conversation, using large corpora of conversational telephone speech. We analyzed two types of speech overlaps: 1. One side takes over the turn before the other side finishes (turn-taking type); 2. One side speaks in the middle of the other side’s turn (backchannel type). We found that Japanese conversations have more short turn-taking type ...

As a step toward the design of a robot that can take part to a conversation we propose a robotic system that, taking advantage of multiple perceptual capabilities, actively follows a conversation among several human subjects. The essential idea of our proposal is that the robot system can dynamically change the focus of its attention according to visual or audio stimuli to track the actual spea...

In every good interaction, there is always a change of roles between the speaker and listener. Research on turn-taking in student conversations interesting to do because diversity regional origins languages used by students. This results emergence distinctive patterns among Through patterns, characters speech participants can be known. study uses qualitative approach with data form utterances d...

This paper examines the potential beneets of conversational computer-mediated communication aids for the speech and hearing impaired. The importance of turn-taking protocols for eeective conversation management is discussed. Results are presented of a preliminary study of turn-taking behaviour in a text-based conversational aid, and the eeectiveness of an explicit turn-taking signalling mechani...

When humans talk without conventionalized arrangements, they engage in conversation--that is, a continuous and largely nonsimultaneous exchange in which speakers take turns. Turn-taking is ubiquitous in conversation and is the normal case against which alternatives, such as interruptions, are treated as violations that warrant repair. Furthermore, turn-taking involves highly coordinated timing,...

Substantial research effort has been invested in recent decades into the computational study and automatic processing of multi-party conversation. While most aspects of conversational speech have benefited from a wide availability of analytic, computationally tractable techniques, only qualitative assessments are available for characterizing multi-party turn-taking. The current paper attempts t...