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). ( XV AISV Conference: Audio archives at the crossroads of Speech Sciences, Digital Humanities and Digital Heritage 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.
