… and their relation to speech acts. This paper describes dialog speech acts and acoustic
measures … the construction of a Speech Act TTS system, and finally it describes a listening test of …

… In our current TTS implementation, speech acts are being used as another feature to select
… of speech acts for TTS. Dialog systems generate speech act information and can provide it to …

… dialog based textto-speech (TTS) synthesis systems by explicitly controlling the expressiveness
through the use of dialog act … Dialog act (speech act) tags are labels used to represent …

… to another gender unless the other annotations (emotion, speech act, … TTS model differs
from general TTS models, we design several evaluation tasks that ask naturalness of dialogue in …

… in an Alexa text-tospeech (TTS) voice on users’ experience with a social dialog system. We
… We tested whether these TTS manipulations improved users’ ratings of their conversation …

… In conventional conversational TTS, speech or dialogue act is often used as the
conversation-related feature, which is either labeled manually, or predicted [26]. However, this …

… speech acts. The driving vision for this work is to provide intelligent text to Farsi speech (TTS)
systems that are sensitive to the speech acts … in such mixed-initiative dialogue, the system …

… , NLU, TTS and dialogue management … dialogue act. This would allow us, for example, to
investigate what part of the task an utterance contributes to separately from what speech act …

… 4 with coordinated TTS output. Since the … speech act given the current dialogue context,
and picks the most likely interpretation from the result. The update process updates the dialogue …

… of the dialogue and impression of the agent [18]. How- … A possible candidate for an evaluation
protocol is “speechact … Table 1: The dialogue act set and felicity conditions used in our …