Pauses, gaps and overlaps in conversations

By Mattias Heldner, Jens Edlund. 2010

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This paper explores durational aspects of pauses gaps and overlaps in three different conversational corpora with a view to challenge claims about precision timing in turn-taking Distributions of p ...

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics

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Generative Spoken Dialogue Language Modeling (2022, background): “It is interesting to note that all models, except DLM-1, manage to capture the empirical fact that intra-turn pauses tend to be longer than between-turn gaps (Brady, 1968; Ten Bosch et al., 2005; Heldner and Edlund, 2010).”
Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language (2015, methodology): “%) of all turn transitions across corpora take place in under 200 ms (Heldner and Edlund, 2010, p. 563).”
Prosody in context: a review (2015, background): “Moreover, some prosodic functions are specific to interactive dialogue, such management of turn-taking or floor-holding strategies (Heldner & Edlund, 2010; Local, Kelly, & Wells, 1986; Selting, 2000), so interactions involving these prosodic patterns must be investigated with interactive speech…”
Towards a General, Continuous Model of Turn-taking in Spoken Dialogue using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks (2017, background): “However, in studies of human-human dialogue it is clear that overlaps are fairly frequent (Heldner and Edlund, 2010).”
Investigating Speech Features for Continuous Turn-Taking Prediction Using LSTMs (2018, unknown): “500ms has been identiﬁed in the literature as being a common pause threshold in many commercial speech technologies [11].”