Analysis of Changes in Dialogue Rhythm Due to Dialogue Acts in Task-Oriented Dialogues

We consider that factors such as prosody of systems’ utterances and dialogue rhythm are important to attain a natural human-machine dialogue. However, the relations between dialogue rhythm and speaker’s various states in task-oriented dialogue have been not revealed. In this study, we collected taskoriented dialogues and analyzed the relations between “dialogue structures, kinds of dialogue acts (contents of utterances), Aizuchi (backchannel/acknowledgment), Repeat and interjection” and “dialogue rhythm (response timing, F0, and speech rate)”.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: TSD
• Authors: Noriki Fujiwara, Toshihiko Itoh, Kenji Araki
• Keywords: Dialogue, Dialogue Rhythm, Natural Human-machine Dialogue, Signal Processing, TSD 2007