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Automatic Evaluation of Turn-taking Cues in Conversational Speech Synthesis
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3513-4132
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1175-840X
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0397-6442
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2023 (English)In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023, International Speech Communication Association , 2023, p. 5481-5485Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

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 proposed Voice Activity Projection model, we propose an automatic evaluation approach to measure these aspects for conversational speech synthesis. We investigate the ability of three commercial, and two open-source, Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems ability to generate turn-taking cues over simulated turns. By varying the stimuli, or controlling the prosody, we analyze the models performances. We show that while commercial TTS largely provide appropriate cues, they often produce ambiguous signals, and that further improvements are possible. TTS, trained on read or spontaneous speech, produce strong turn-hold but weak turn-yield cues. We argue that this approach, that focus on functional aspects of interaction, provides a useful addition to other important speech metrics, such as intelligibility and naturalness.

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International Speech Communication Association , 2023. p. 5481-5485
Keywords [en]
human-computer interaction, text-to-speech, turn-taking
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Natural Language Processing Computer Sciences General Language Studies and Linguistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-337873DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2064ISI: 001186650305133Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85171597862OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-337873DiVA, id: diva2:1803872
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24th International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2023, August 20-24, 2023, Dublin, Ireland
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tmh_turntaking
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Available from: 2023-10-10 Created: 2023-10-10 Last updated: 2025-02-01Bibliographically approved

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Ekstedt, ErikWang, SiyangSzékely, ÉvaGustafsson, JoakimSkantze, Gabriel

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