An important decision in the design of automatic conversation understanding systems is the level at which information streams representing specific participants are merged. In the current work, we explore participant-dependence of low-level interactive aspects of conversation, namely the observed contextual preferences for talkspurt deployment. We argue that strong participant-dependence at this level gives cause for merging participant streams as early as possible. We demonstrate that our probabilistic description of talkspurt deployment preferences is strongly participant-dependent, and frequently predictive of participant identity.
Cite as: Laskowski, K., Schultz, T. (2008) Recovering participant identities in meetings from a probabilistic description of vocal interaction. Proc. Interspeech 2008, 82-85, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2008-18
@inproceedings{laskowski08_interspeech,
author={Kornel Laskowski and Tanja Schultz},
title={{Recovering participant identities in meetings from a probabilistic description of vocal interaction}},
year=2008,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2008},
pages={82--85},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2008-18}
}