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Speech Speed Awareness System Slows Down Native Speaker’s Talk

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Conversation between native speakers and non-native speakers is not always easy. Non-native speakers sometimes feel hard to understand what native speakers talk because of their speaking speed. Even kind native speakers who speak slower in the beginning often get back to their “natural” speed unconsciously after a while. Although non-native speakers may ask a native speaker to repeat what they cannot catch, participants of the conversation would become uneasy for too often request of repeating, which may also reduce productivity of the conversation or the meeting. In this paper, we study how conversation between native and non-native speakers is conducted regarding speech rate, how the introduction of a speech speed awareness system could alleviate this communication problem. The system recognizes speech rate in real-time and makes participants aware when their speech rate is too fast for non-native speakers.

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  1. University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 3058550, Japan

    Tomoo Inoue & Wei Liao

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  1. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Hideyuki Nakanishi

  2. University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Hironori Egi

  3. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Irene-Angelica Chounta

  4. Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan

    Hideyuki Takada

  5. Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan

    Satoshi Ichimura

  6. University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

    Ulrich Hoppe

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Inoue, T., Liao, W. (2019). Speech Speed Awareness System Slows Down Native Speaker’s Talk. In: Nakanishi, H., Egi, H., Chounta, IA., Takada, H., Ichimura, S., Hoppe, U. (eds) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. CRIWG+CollabTech 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11677. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28011-6_11

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