ETRW on Dialogue and Prosody September 1-3, 1999 Veldhoven, The Netherlands

Prosody and Prompt Design in a Computer Dialog System

Gayle Ayers Elam and Sarah C. Wayland

Entropic, Inc., USA

This paper describes a technique for creating a small set of recorded number phrases that can be concatenated in such a way as to speak numbers ranging in value from 0.00 to 999,999,999,999.99. This was accomplished by controlling the prosody of both the number phrases themselves and the carrier phrases into which the numbers are integrated. We have successfully implemented this system for both German and English speakers.

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Bibliographic reference.  Ayers Elam, Gayle / Wayland, Sarah C. (1999): "Prosody and prompt design in a computer dialog system", In DIAPRO-1999, 93-97.