Using dialogue representations for concept-to-speech generation

  • Authors:
  • Christine H. Nakatani;Jennifer Chu-Carroll

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Laboratories, Murray IIill, NJ;Bell Laboratories, Murray IIill, NJ

  • Venue:
  • ConversationalSys '00 Proceedings of the ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop on Conversational Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We present an implemented concept-to-speech (CTS) system that offers original proposals for certain couplings of dialogue computation with prosodic computation. Specifically, the semantic interpretation, task modeling and dialogue strategy modules in a working spoken dialogue system are used to generate prosodic features to better convey the meaning of system replies. The new CTS system embodies and extends theoretical work on intonational meaning in a more general, robust and rigorous way than earlier approaches, by reflecting compositional aspects of both dialogue and intonation interepretation in an original computational framework for prosodic generation.