The respiratory aspects of the speech of two conversing subjects were studied. The data showed that (1) the breath regulating mechanism is independent of speech (phonation and pausing); (2) total dialogue duration can be broken down into: 25% breathing in, 25% phonation, and 50% pausing, although the absolute durations vary by subject; (3) breathing in takes less than one second, while expiration lasts four times as long; (4) "silent" pausing covers several physiological events: final expiration, breathing in, and prephonation pauses; (5) interlocutors generally speak when their partner is pausing and listener/speaker speech overlapping is minimal.
Cite as: Autesserre, D., Nishinuma, Y., Guaitella, I. (1989) Breathing, pausing, and speaking in dialogue. Proc. First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1989), 2433-2436, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1989-280
@inproceedings{autesserre89_eurospeech,
author={Denis Autesserre and Yukihiro Nishinuma and Isabelle Guaitella},
title={{Breathing, pausing, and speaking in dialogue}},
year=1989,
booktitle={Proc. First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1989)},
pages={2433--2436},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1989-280}
}