
CHAPTER 12
A Distributed Architecture
for Real-time Dialogue and
On-task Learning of Efficient
Co-operative Turn-taking
Gudny Ragna Jonsdottir and Kristinn R. Thórisson
1. Introduction
Building automatic dialogue systems that match human flexibility and
reactivity has proven difficult. Many factors impede the progress of
such systems, useful as they may be, from the low-level of real-time
audio signal analysis and noise filtering to medium-level turn-taking
cues and control signals, all the way up to high-level dialogue intent
and content-related interpretation. Of these, we have focussed on
the dynamics of turn-taking—the real-time
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