Ward, Nigel

Non-lexical conversational sounds in American English

Ward, N. (2006) · Pragmatics & Cognition

Language, Discourse, Communication StrategiesPhonetics and Phonology Research

Cited by 170

Using prosodic clues to decide when to produce back-channel utterances

Ward, N. (1996) · 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1996)

Speech and dialogue systemsSpeech Recognition and Synthesis

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Prediction and generation of backchannel form for attentive listening systems,

Kawahara, T., Yamaguchi, T., Inoue, K., Takanashi, K., & Ward, N. (2016) · Interspeech 2016

Speech and Audio ProcessingSpeech Recognition and Synthesis

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Challenges in Building Highly Interactive Dialogue Systems

Ward, N. G., & DeVault, D. (2016) · AI Magazine

Speech and dialogue systemsAI in Service Interactions

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