Title
The challenge of non-lexical speech sounds
Abstract
Non-lexical speech sounds (conversational grunts), such asuh-huh, un-hn, mm, and oh, are common in English. Inhuman dialogs these sounds are important in conversationcontrol and for conveying attitudes. Spoken dialog systemsmay make use of these sounds to achieve concise, smooth,relaxed interactions. Doing so is, however, a challenge, becausemost algorithms used in spoken language processingwere devised for words, but grunts are different from wordsboth phonetically and semantically....
Year
Venue
Field
2000
INTERSPEECH
Speech sounds,Computer science,Speech recognition
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
5
0.95
References 
Authors
3
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nigel Ward13710.54