most citedWhat makes a good pause? Investigating the turn-holding effects of fillers

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cs.CL20241 cited

Multilingual Turn-taking Prediction Using Voice Activity Projection

Koji Inoue, Bing'er Jiang, Erik Ekstedt +2

This paper investigates the application of voice activity projection (VAP), a predictive turn-taking model for spoken dialogue, on multilingual data, encompassing English, Mandarin…

cs.CL20242 cited

Real-time and Continuous Turn-taking Prediction Using Voice Activity Projection

Koji Inoue, Bing'er Jiang, Erik Ekstedt +2

A demonstration of a real-time and continuous turn-taking prediction system is presented. The system is based on a voice activity projection (VAP) model, which directly maps dialog…

eess.AS2023

Automatic Evaluation of Turn-taking Cues in Conversational Speech Synthesis

Erik Ekstedt, Siyang Wang, Éva Székely +2

Turn-taking is a fundamental aspect of human communication where speakers convey their intention to either hold, or yield, their turn through prosodic cues. Using the recently prop…

cs.CL20232 cited

What makes a good pause? Investigating the turn-holding effects of fillers

Bing'er Jiang, Erik Ekstedt, Gabriel Skantze

Filled pauses (or fillers), such as "uh" and "um", are frequent in spontaneous speech and can serve as a turn-holding cue for the listener, indicating that the current speaker is n…

cs.CL20231 cited

Response-conditioned Turn-taking Prediction

Bing'er Jiang, Erik Ekstedt, Gabriel Skantze

Previous approaches to turn-taking and response generation in conversational systems have treated it as a two-stage process: First, the end of a turn is detected (based on conversa…