Developing an Integrated Model of Speech Entrainment

Developing an Integrated Model of Speech Entrainment

Rivka Levitan

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Early Career. Pages 5159-5163. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/727

Entrainment, the phenomenon of conversational partners’ speech becoming more similar to each other, is generally accepted to be an important aspect of human-human and human-machine communication. However, there is a gap between accepted psycholinguistic models of entrainment and the body of empirical findings, which includes a large number of unexplained negative results. Existing research does not provide insights specific enough to guide the implementation of entraining spoken dialogue systems or the interpretation of entrainment as a measure of quality. A more integrated model of entrainment is proposed, which looks for consistent explanations of entrainment behavior on specific features and how they interact with speaker, session, and utterance characteristics.
Keywords:
Natural Language Processing: Dialogue
Natural Language Processing: Speech
Humans and AI: Human-Computer Interaction