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Topics in the Study of the Pragmatic Functions of Phonetic Reduction in Dialog
Reduced articulatory precision is common in speech, but for dialog its acoustic properties and pragmatic functions have been little studied.
A Collection of Pragmatic-Similarity Judgments over Spoken Dialog Utterances
While there exist measures for semantic similarity and prosodic similarity, there are as yet none for pragmatic similarity.
Towards cross-language prosody transfer for dialog
Speech-to-speech translation systems today do not adequately support use for dialog purposes.
Dialogs Re-enacted Across Languages
To support machine learning of cross-language prosodic mappings and other ways to improve speech-to-speech translation, we present a protocol for collecting closely matched pairs of utterances across languages, a description of the resulting data collection and its public release, and some observations and musings.
On the Utility of Self-supervised Models for Prosody-related Tasks
We find that 13 of the 15 SSL models outperformed the baseline on all the prosody-related tasks.
