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A Speech Speed Awareness System for Non-Native Speakers

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Conversation between native speakers and non-native speakers is not always easy. Non-native speakers sometimes feel hard to understand what native speakers talked because of their speech speed. Even kind native speakers who speak slower in such a situation in the beginning often get back to their “natural” speed unconsciously after a while. Moreover, non-native speakers are supposed to pardon for one more listening but it is hard to get the opportunity when their partners keep on talking. In this study, we introduce a speech speed awareness system to alleviate this communication problem. It recognizes the speech speed in real-time and make the participants aware when the speech speed is too fast.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359273
Guo ZInoue TBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)Using a Conversational Agent to Facilitate Non-native Speaker's Active Participation in ConversationExtended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290607.3313075(1-6)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
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CSCW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion

February 2016

549 pages

ISBN:9781450339506

DOI:10.1145/2818052

General Chairs:
Darren Gergle
Northwestern University
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Meredith Ringel Morris
Microsoft Research
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Pernille Bjørn
University of Copenhagen
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Joseph Konstan
University of Minnesota

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Duan WYamashita NFussell S(2019)Increasing Native Speakers' Awareness of the Need to Slow Down in Multilingual Conversations Using a Real-Time Speech SpeedometerProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33592733:CSCW(1-25)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359273
Guo ZInoue TBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)Using a Conversational Agent to Facilitate Non-native Speaker's Active Participation in ConversationExtended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290607.3313075(1-6)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290607.3313075

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