ESCA Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems

Vigsų, Denmark
May 30 - June 2, 1995

Conveying Discourse Structure through Intonation Variation

Julia Hirschberg (1), Christine H. Nakatani (2), Barbara J. Grosz (2)

(1) AT&T Bell Laboratories; (2) Harvard University, USA

This study represents ongoing research into the relationship between intonational variation and discourse structure. Our goals are to examine correlations between prosodic and acoustic variation in spontaneous elicited speech and read speech and the discourse structure which subjects assign to the textual material of this speech. We will employ our findings in improving the naturalness of intonational variation in text-to-speech.

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Bibliographic reference.  Hirschberg, Julia / Nakatani, Christine H. / Grosz, Barbara J. (1995): "Conveying discourse structure through intonation variation", In SDS-1995, 189-192.