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Accent Patterning on Domain-Related Information in Swedish Travel Dialogues

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Författare

Summary, in English

Investigation of travel-domain dialogues reveals travel-agent (apSystem) utterances with intonational contours characterized by late-timed focal accents on given information. These accents occur on content words in utterance-initial position. The accentuation can be assumed to be related to the interactive nature of the dialogue in which the travel agent links back to a domain-related concept introduced by the client (apUser) and comments on it in an engaged manner. A perception test using constructed human-machine dialogues in which the machine (synthesized) responses vary as to the type of accent pattern on the initial words was developed to test listeners' preference for accent type. Results indicate that i) focal accents on domain-related utterance-initial given concepts are indeed preferred to nonfocal accents and that ii) late-timed focal accents are preferred to early-timed focal accents. These results have implications for the design of the prosody-generating component of human-machine dialogue systems.

Publiceringsår

2001

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

93-102

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volym

4

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • prosody
  • accentuation
  • information structure
  • dialogue
  • speech synthesis
  • given/new

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1381-2416