ETRW on Speech Processing in Adverse Conditions Cannes-Mandelieu, France November 10-13, 1992

Disruption of speech amplitude cues by echo during turn-taking in telephone dialogue

P. Howell, K. Young

Department of Psychology, University College London, UK

Echo affects communication in many situations, including dialogue over telephone. Fall in voice level at the end of a speaker's speech turn is one acoustic cue to signal that an interruption is appropriate. However, level is one cue which is disrupted by echo. Thus disruption to dialogue interaction would be expected to occur over telephone connections which are susceptible to echo. Analyses of telephone dialogues are reported which show that such disruption does occur.

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Bibliographic reference.  Howell, P. / Young, K. (1992): "Disruption of speech amplitude cues by echo during turn-taking in telephone dialogue", In SPAC-1992, 239-242.