Pause and gap length in face-to-face interaction
Year: 2009
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: It has long been noted that conversational partners tend to exhibit increasingly similar pitch, intensity, and timing behavior over the course of a conversation. However, the metrics developed to measure this similarity to date have generally failed to capture the dynamic temporal aspects of this process. In this paper, we propose new approaches to measuring interlocutor similarity in spoken dialogue. define similarity in terms of convergence and synchrony and propose approaches to capture these, illustrating our techniques on gap and pause production in Swedish spontaneous dialogues.
Source: Interspeech (USB)
Authors: Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner, Julia Hirschberg
Institutions: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1597302478