Polyphonic monologues

Monologues, Dialogues, and Interactive Conversations:

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the on-line discourse accompanying a year-long professional development experience. Participants in this study were 19 graduate students, 5 teacher-leaders, and 1 university faculty member involved in a Reading Institute taught at an urban university in the Southeast. Primary data sources for the study consisted of over 1300 bulletin board po...

Generation of Coherent Monologues

In this paper a method for generating coherent texts is described. In this method only local conditions associated with sentences determine the appropriateness of a sentence at a certain point in the text. The method does not require any form of planning and it concentrates on maximizing the amount of variation of the texts generated. 1 Introduction The topic of this paper is the generation of ...

SMALLWorlds - Multilingual Content-Controlled Monologues

We present the speech corpus SMALLWorlds (Spoken Multilingual Accounts of Logically Limited Worlds), newly established and still growing. SMALLWorlds contains monologic descriptions of scenes or worlds which are simple enough to be formally describable. The descriptions are instances of content-controlled monologue: semantically “pre-specified” but still bearing most hallmarks of spontaneous sp...

I.B. Singer's Monologues of Demons

A generic algorithm for generating spoken monologues

The defining property of a Concept-to-Speech system is that it combines language and speech generation. Language generation converts the input concepts into natural language, which speech generation subsequently transforms into speech. Potentially, this leads to a more ‘natural sounding’ output than can be achieved in a plain Text-to-Speech system, since the correct placement of pitch accents a...