ITRI-97-13

van Deemter and Odijk

Context Modeling and the Generation of Spoken Discourse

Also published in Speech Communication 21, pp. 101-121.

This paper presents the Dial-Your-Disc (DYD) system, an interactive system that supports browsing through a large database of musical information and generates a spoken monologue once a musical composition has been selected. The paper focuses on the generation of spoken monologues and, more specifically, on the various ways in which the generation of an utterance at a given point in the monologue requires modeling of the linguistic context of the utterance.