Pacing Spoken Directions to Suit the Listener

Tatsuya Iwase and Nigel Ward.

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), 1998, pp 1203-1206.

On the basis of corpus analysis, we have made a direction-giving
system which adjusts the pace of dialog without using speech
recognition.  We evaluated the naturalness of the resulting
conversations experimentally and the system showed good performance.