Recognizing Uncertainty in Speech
| Title: | Recognizing Uncertainty in Speech |
| Author: |
Shieber, Stuart M.; Pon-Barry, Heather Roberta
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| Citation: | Pon-Barry, Heather Roberta, and Stuart M. Shieber. 2011. Recognizing uncertainty in speech. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2011:251753. |
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| Abstract: | We address the problem of inferring a speaker’s level of certainty based on prosodic information in the speech signal, which has application in speech-based dialogue systems. We show that using phrase-level prosodic features centered around the phrases causing uncertainty, in addition to utterance-level prosodic features, improves our model’s level of certainty classification. In addition, our models can be used to predict which phrase a person is uncertain about. These results rely on a novel method for eliciting utterances of varying levels of certainty that allows us to compare the utility of contextually-based feature sets. We elicit level of certainty ratings from both the speakers themselves and a panel of listeners, finding that there is often a mismatch between speakers’ internal states and their perceived states, and highlighting the importance of this distinction. |
| Published Version: | doi:10.1155/2011/251753 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/15364
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/aip.251753.html |
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