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UU Database: A Spoken Dialogue Corpus for Studies on Paralinguistic Information in Expressive Conversation

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2008)

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The Utsunomiya University (UU) Spoken Dialogue Database for Paralinguistic Information Studies, now available to the public, is introduced. The UU database is intended mainly for use in understanding the usage, structure and effect of paralinguistic information in expressive Japanese conversational speech. This paper describes the outline, design, building, and key properties of the UU database, to show how the corpus meets the demands of speech scientists and developers who are interested in the nature of expressive dialogue speech.

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Mori, H., Satake, T., Nakamura, M., Kasuya, H. (2008). UU Database: A Spoken Dialogue Corpus for Studies on Paralinguistic Information in Expressive Conversation. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87391-4_55

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