Project description
The language of our brains
Language sciences are moving away from individually-administered protocols towards the characterisation of how spoken language is jointly used by two or more talkers as a shared set of resources for interacting with each other. The EU-funded COBRA project will train the next generation of researchers to accurately characterise and model the linguistic and cognitive brain mechanisms that allow conversation to unfold in both human-human and human-machine interactions. The first challenge will be to determine how alignment and prediction may both rely on and contribute to setting up brain-to-brain coupling relationships. The second will relate to the development of computational models of alignment and prediction for more socially-acceptable text-to-speech synthesisers, human-machine dialogue systems, and social robots.
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13284 Marseille
France
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Participants (8)
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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16163 Genova
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845 07 Bratislava
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1348 Louvain La Neuve
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14195 Berlin
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10117 Berlin
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114 28 Stockholm
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
3712 BP Huis Ter Heide
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.