Yukiko Kageyama


2018

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Improving User Impression in Spoken Dialog System with Gradual Speech Form Control
Yukiko Kageyama | Yuya Chiba | Takashi Nose | Akinori Ito
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

This paper examines a method to improve the user impression of a spoken dialog system by introducing a mechanism that gradually changes form of utterances every time the user uses the system. In some languages, including Japanese, the form of utterances changes corresponding to social relationship between the talker and the listener. Thus, this mechanism can be effective to express the system’s intention to make social distance to the user closer; however, an actual effect of this method is not investigated enough when introduced to the dialog system. In this paper, we conduct dialog experiments and show that controlling the form of system utterances can improve the users’ impression.