Presentation 2017-03-16
Design of turn talking behaviors for participants in speech rate converted conversation
Kosuke Kumagai, Hiroko Tokunaga, Naoki Mukawa, Hiroto Saito,
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Abstract(in English) Speech rate conversion (SRC) is one of the most potential techniques for supporting hearing impaired. SRC is a technique that converts playback speed of speeches while maintaining their vocal pitches. Utterances slowed down by SRC is effective for improving audibility. However, this technique has a drawback in which users are hard to take turns due to long switching pauses. In the article we propose and developed a visual feedback functions that can share the listening end time information for facilitating turn-talking among conversation participants. The experimental results show that proposed method was effective for decreasing response latency. It suggests that the proposed method contributes to smoothing turn-takings and also to performance improvements of conversations.
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Keyword(in English) speech rate conversion / turn talking / visualization / three party conversation
Paper # HCS2016-117
Date of Issue 2017-03-08 (HCS)

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Committee HCS
Conference Date 2017/3/15(2days)
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Chair Yukiko Nakano(Seikei Univ.)
Vice Chair Nobuyuki Watanabe(Kanazawa Inst. of Tech.) / Tomoo Inoue(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Secretary Nobuyuki Watanabe(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Tomoo Inoue(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.)
Assistant Ryo Ishii(NTT) / Kazuki Takashima(Tohoku Univ.) / Ken Fujiwara(Osaka Univ. of Economic)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Human Communication Science
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Design of turn talking behaviors for participants in speech rate converted conversation
Sub Title (in English) Effects of delay time visualization on next speaker's utterances
Keyword(1) speech rate conversion
Keyword(2) turn talking
Keyword(3) visualization
Keyword(4) three party conversation
1st Author's Name Kosuke Kumagai
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo Denki University(Tokyo Denki Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Hiroko Tokunaga
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Denki University(Tokyo Denki Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Naoki Mukawa
3rd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Denki University(Tokyo Denki Univ.)
4th Author's Name Hiroto Saito
4th Author's Affiliation Tokyo Denki University(Tokyo Denki Univ.)
Date 2017-03-16
Paper # HCS2016-117
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) HCS-524
Page pp.pp.155-160(HCS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-03-08 (HCS)