On Laughter and Speech-Laugh, Based on Observations of Child-Robot Interaction

30 Aug 2019  ·  Anton Batliner, Stefan Steidl, Florian Eyben, Björn Schuller ·

In this article, we study laughter found in child-robot interaction where it had not been prompted intentionally. Different types of laughter and speech-laugh are annotated and processed. In a descriptive part, we report on the position of laughter and speech-laugh in syntax and dialogue structure, and on communicative functions. In a second part, we report on automatic classification performance and on acoustic characteristics, based on extensive feature selection procedures.

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