Definition and experimentation of a methodology of collecting, analysing and modelling multimodal data in designing virtual agents serving in museums, through an “anthropomorphic” human-machine dialog system. - Research features and regularity of verbal behavioural pattern to be implemented in text to speech (TTS) systems in order to improve its performances/services. - Describe and model a set of speech dysfluency phenomena (silent pauses, filled pauses, vocalized filled pauses) occurring in tourist guides’ speech. - Investigate the existing correlation between pauses and concurrent gestures.
Phonetic and functional features of pauses, and concurrent gestures, in tourist guides' speech / Cataldo, Violetta; Schettino, Loredana; Savy, Renata; Poggi, Isabella; Origlia, Antonio; Ansani, Alessandro; Sessa, Isora; Chiera, Alessandra. - (2019). (Intervento presentato al convegno XV AISV Conference: Audio archives at the crossroads of Speech Sciences, Digital Humanities and Digital Heritage tenutosi a Arezzo, Italy).
Phonetic and functional features of pauses, and concurrent gestures, in tourist guides' speech
Isabella Poggi;Isora Sessa;
2019
Abstract
Definition and experimentation of a methodology of collecting, analysing and modelling multimodal data in designing virtual agents serving in museums, through an “anthropomorphic” human-machine dialog system. - Research features and regularity of verbal behavioural pattern to be implemented in text to speech (TTS) systems in order to improve its performances/services. - Describe and model a set of speech dysfluency phenomena (silent pauses, filled pauses, vocalized filled pauses) occurring in tourist guides’ speech. - Investigate the existing correlation between pauses and concurrent gestures.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
