: This paper presents the NECA approach to the generation of dialogues between Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). This approach consist of the automated constructtion stract sc...
Kees van Deemter, Brigitte Krenn, Paul Piwek, Mart...
Students rated 16 tutorial statements on negative politeness (i.e., how much the tutor ``allows me freedom to make my own decisions'') and positive politeness (i.e., how...
Richard E. Mayer, W. Lewis Johnson, Erin Shaw, Sah...
As software organisations mature, their repositories of reusable software components from previous projects will also grow considerably. Remaining conversant with all components in...
Abstract--This paper presents a technique to transform high-effort voices into breathy voices using adaptive pre-emphasis linear prediction (APLP). The primary benefit of this tech...
K. I. Nordstrom, George Tzanetakis, Peter F. Dries...
In this paper we investigate the combination of complementary acoustic feature streams in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR). We have explored the use of acoust...