Title
Online detection of vocal Listener Responses with maximum latency constraints
Abstract
When human listeners utter Listener Responses (e.g. back-channels or acknowledgments) such as 'yeah' and 'mmhmm', interlocutors commonly continue to speak or resume their speech even before the listener has finished his/her response. This type of speech interactivity results in frequent speech overlap which is common in human human conversation. To allow for this type of speech interactivity to occur between humans and spoken dialog systems, which will result in more human-like continuous and smoother human-machine inter action, we propose an on-line classifier which can classify incoming speech as Listener Responses. We show that it is possible to detect vocal Listener Responses using maximum latency thresholds of 100-500 ms, thereby obtaining equal error rates ranging from 34% to 28% by using an energy based voice activity detector.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947688
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
speech processing,human-like continuous,human-machine interaction,maximum latency constraints,online detection,speech interactivity,spoken dialog systems,vocal listener responses,Speech processing,speech analysis
Speech processing,Interactivity,Spoken dialog systems,Conversation,Voice activity detection,Computer science,Latency (engineering),Speech recognition,Classifier (linguistics)
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1520-6149 E-ISBN : 978-1-4577-0537-3
978-1-4577-0537-3
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Neiberg1758.04
Khiet P. Truong230232.64