On The Use of Non-Verbal Speech Sounds in Human Communication

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This project focused on the relationships between "dialogue structure" and the processes of "active listening". The project did not result in specific new technology but gave us a better understanding of the nature of spoken language in a way that will allow us improve speech synthesis and recognition technology. Our research theme inspired the new European project on Social Signal Processing. Further- more, we collected a large multi-modal corpora cooperating with other universities in three countries, published the database on the website (http://www.speech-data.jp/nick/mmx/d64.html). We finally made a prototype of a robot "Herme" which employs image and speech processing modules developed in this study. The robot is currently in exhibition in Ireland where it is collecting a new corpus of interactive speech.