Speech Dialogue Research Articles

Application of Large Language Model Based on Knowledge Graph in Speech Dialogue System

Abstract. This paper comprehensively discusses the development status and future direction of AI-driven voice interaction systems, focusing on key technologies such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language processing (NLP), and text-to-speech (TTS). With the continuous advancement of deep learning technology, voice interaction systems have achieved significant improvements in accuracy, naturalness, and user experience. However, these systems still face challenges such as accent recognition, background noise processing, complex query comprehension, and emotional expression. By analyzing the existing research results, this paper proposes that the research should focus on developing more robust models to achieve generalization across languages and dialects, and improve the system's ability to handle complex interactions.

Cognitive foundations of the formation of communicative competencies in the theory of dialogue

Abstract The study of cognitive mechanisms involved in the process of developing communicative competencies, particularly from the perspective of dialogue theory, is relevant and necessary to improve communicative activity and its effectiveness. The purpose of this research is to study the cognitive-communicative interaction in the process of dialogical communication and the cognitive conditionality of the development of communicative competencies. The methods of frame, cognitive and communicative analysis, and the analytical-synthetic method were used in the study. The main frame structures of dialogic speech were considered: using one frame and similar ways of verbalization, using one frame and different ways of verbal expression, and using two frames with different thematic or semantic content. The study examined cognitive-communicative interaction in dialogic communication and the cognitive basis for developing communicative competencies. Among the important conclusions is the discovery of three primary dialogical unity frame structures. It has been found that cognitive functions affect successful communication. The study demonstrated how cognitive-communicative interaction fosters the development of communicative competencies. It was also determined that dialogue structure relates to response shifts represented as interrelated frames. The study concludes that future research should focus on studying cognitions in communicative contexts and improving foreign language communication.

Social Values in The Novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

This research aims to explain the social values in the novel The Hunger Games. The research method used is in the form of qualitative descriptive using content data analysis. The data of this research is in the form of words, sentences, and speech (dialogue) contained in the novel. The results of this study show that there is a social phenomenon in the story that contains competition, betrayal, and the existence of social gaps between the characters, but in this story there are also social values that can be learned, namely: 1) the value of affection consisting of loyalty, help, and care, 2) the value of responsibility in the form of the value of empathy and mutual ownership, 3) the value of life harmony in the form of cooperation.

Dialogical Speech in The Intercultural Context of The Service Sector

Dialogical Speech in The Intercultural Context of The Service Sector

A Comparative Study of Speech Acts in EFL Textbook Life Today and Train of Thoughts For Student Grade XII of Curriculum Merdeka

Since it turns out the textbook's value as the primary focus of the curriculum, particularly in EFL environments cannot be understated. According to recent studies, even the most-latest textbooks provide insufficient amounts of pragmatic material to help learners enhance their pragmatic competence. Much more research regarding the extent and level of speaking acts must be conducted before future textbooks, specifically for EFL purposes. They are must able to deliver reliable and suitable examples of pragmatic information. Train for Thoughts and Life Today EFL Textbook are not yet comparable. To establish which of the two has more varieties of speech act categories, as well as the percentage and content of each. The study analyzes dialogue speech acts in two Indonesian EFL textbooks created by Kemendikbud and based on the Merdeka Curriculum. In this study, the descriptive qualitative method is applied. To examine each chapter of the dialogue section, the researcher implemented a table of checklists from Searle's (1979) Speech-Act Classification. Then, multiply the total number of speech acts categorised in each chapter by the percentage of the EFL Textbook. The two results were then compared.

Активизация коммуникативной деятельности младших школьников на уроках окружающего мира (Часть 2)

The article proposes for discussion the contribution of primary schoolchildren studying the subject “The World Around Us” to the development of their speech and verbal communication. Based on the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard for Primary General Education and the Federal Educational Program for Primary General Education, the methodology for developing dialogic speech (educational dialogues, didactic games), as well as descriptions and narratives in younger schoolchildren is revealed.

THE FUNCTION OF THE AUTHOR’S SPEECH AND DIALOGICAL FORMS OF SPEECH IN HISTORICAL NOVELS

The article presents examples of author's speech in fiction and historical novels, the role of dialogic speech in the form of communication, historical formation, tasks, structure, types of language, functions of speech in fiction, as well as the opinions and conclusions of famous researchers.

Теоретични предпоставки и експериментален модел за развиване на диалогична компетентност при деца с алалия

In preschool period children learn first dialogue speech, which has one peculiarity, which occurs when using the verbal means, acceptable in conversational speech. The article presents experimental research with the aim to study the peculiarities of dialogue speech of preschool children with general under development of speech and realization of logopedic revalidation for forming dialogue competence by using the multisensor approach. The comparative analysis of the results reflects the positive dynamic about the level of forming dialogue competence of preschool children with alaly. It is totally corroborated the effectiveness of using the multisensor approach, whose nature allows purposefully including of dominant and subdominant levels of the sensor fundament.

Dialogue and the “miracle of language”: the early and late Bakhtin

Abstract This essay begins with a brief account of the French linguistic structuralism and very briefly some aspects of the post-structuralist critique of it, here represented by Lacan and, Deleuze, and Guattari as a response to it. Against this backdrop, the purpose of the essay is to show a critique of structuralism that came earlier than the post-structuralist one, namely that of the Russian philosopher of the dialogic speech and literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin in the 1920s. The concept of the dialogical word has had a major influence in cultural semiotics, literary – and film studies and existential psychotherapy. A second purpose of this essay is to briefly show in what way the ethics of the dialogical word is important in the latter, in existential psychotherapeutic work. Translations from Swedish and French are mine.

Communicative linguistics through the lens of gestalt theory

Relevance. The relevance of this study is conditioned upon the importance of developing communicative competence, exploring communicative tactics and strategies used in dialogic speech, effective correlation of verbal and nonverbal codes, specifically the coexistence of various syntactic constructions within the text field. Purpose. The purpose of this study is to consider linguistic means, namely syntactic structures of a simple and complex sentence, using a gestalt approach with the allocation of the centre (figure) and periphery (ground). Methodology. The main method of research is theoretical understanding of problems related to communicative activity, using evidence from modern scientific studies, the use of transactional, structural, pragmatic, and linguistic analysis of verbal and nonverbal components during communicative activity. Results. This paper analyses the development of key gestalt structures using the examples of the most used syntactic constructions in communicative practice, specifically predicate and non-predicate simple and complex sentences. The study identified key gestalt structures in dialogic speech (interrogative, emotive, elliptical), with examples of basic syntactic constructions. Attention was focused on the functional use of key speech acts (expressiveness, representation) and communicative tactics (hyperbolisation, increasing and decreasing significance, self-presentation, juxtaposition). The role of nonverbal ways of transmitting information, social factors in the choice of linguistic means in the aspect of communicative load and communicative significance is indicated. Conclusions. Gestalt techniques in communication prove effective for addressing psychological issues and enhancing communicative impact. Keywords: simple sentence; syntactic structure; figure; ground; speech act

Realization of Chinese-English Bilingual Speech Dialogue System using Machine Translation Technology

The realization of a Chinese-English bilingual speech dialogue system through machine translation technology involves developing a sophisticated system capable of seamlessly translating spoken language between Chinese and English in real-time. This system employs cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, neural networks, and natural language processing techniques to accurately interpret and translate speech inputs from one language to another. By integrating advanced speech recognition and translation models, users can engage in fluid and natural conversations across language barriers, opening up new possibilities for cross-cultural communication and interaction. This paper introduces a Statistical Phase-based Bilingual Speech (SPBS) system designed to facilitate seamless language translation and dialogue between multiple languages, with a focus on Chinese and English. Leveraging advanced machine learning models and techniques, such as Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) architecture, the SPBS system achieves high translation accuracy, computational efficiency, and fluency of translations. The system's multilingual model attains an impressive translation accuracy of 97% while processing 10 sentences per second, with positive feedback on the fluency of translations. Trained on a substantial dataset of 1 million bilingual sentence pairs, the SPBS model maintains a compact size of 500 MB. Furthermore, the paper presents the machine learning settings and training progress of the SPBS system, demonstrating its effectiveness in accurately classifying and translating speech inputs across languages. The system's multilingual model attains an impressive translation accuracy of 97% while processing 10 sentences per second, with positive feedback on the fluency of translations. Trained on a substantial dataset of 1 million bilingual sentence pairs, the SPBS model maintains a compact size of 500 MB.

Использование машинного обучения для тематической разметки текстовых материалов корпуса устной речи

The research aims to determine the effectiveness of the thesaurus method for forming a list of topic classes when using machine learning for the topic classification of text materials of sociolinguistic interviews. The paper considers the potential of using machine learning in the topic annotation of linguistic corpus materials. The polytopical nature of the analyzed material is due to its genre belonging to dialogical speech. The hierarchical structure of the topics, identified as a result of a preliminary introspective analysis of the texts, can be described using a thesaurus. The results of using the unsupervised machine learning method are discussed involving two sets of topic class names: a list of topics used in manual text annotation and an extended list of micro-topics whose names were selected from a Russian language thesaurus. The paper is novel in that it is the first to propose the thesaurus method for selecting topic labels for the zero-shot classification of weakly structured Russian texts. The research findings show that using a more detailed lexical description for topic classes improves the classification result.

Studying the level of dialogical speech development in pupils with intellectual disorders as an indicator of their mental health

Background. The research was aimed at studying the levels of development of dialogical speech in primary schoolchildren with intellectual disabilities (ID). In accordance with the purpose of the research, the following tasks were implemented: to carry out a theoretical analysis of the research problem; to develop criteria and indicators of the levels of dialogical speech development in younger schoolchildren with intellectual disabilities; to investigate the state and levels of development of dialogical speech in younger schoolchildren with intellectual disabilities in modern educational conditions. Materials and methods. To determine the levels of dialogical speech development, we have created a diagnostic program, criteria, and indicators for the development of dialogical speech in students with ID. Results. According to the results of the study, the high level of development of dialogical speech among primary schoolchildren with ID was not detected, 15.4 % of students showed sufficient level, 39.1 % — average level, 45.5 % had low level. Conclusion. Children with intellectual disabilities experience difficulties in independently formulating questions, choosing the necessary words in answers. In dialogue, younger schoolchildren with IP mostly use short, monotonous lines. Their answers are characterized by poor vocabulary, inaccurate use of words, morphological and syntactic agrammatism. This state of dialogical skills is due to the underdevelopment of coherent speech and basic mental operations such as analysis, synthesis, abstraction, generalization, comparison, systematization; inability to transfer acquired skills to a conversation situation, narrowing of verbal contacts, cognitive passivity. Their speech lacks emotion due to the inability of children with IP to use intonation.

ŞAGİRDLƏRİN ŞİFAHİ NİTQİNİN İNKİŞAFINDA MONOLOJİ VƏ DİALOJİ NİTQİN NƏZƏRİ ƏSASLARI (Alman dilinin materialları əsasında)

Theoretical Foundations of Monology and Dialogicity of Speech in the Development of Oral Speech Speakers (on the basis of German language materials) Summary It is very important that the development of speech is included in the educational process. In particular, it is important to develop a speech culture when teaching the language in higher educational institutions. When teaching speech culture, you need to focus on two types of speech and make students feel comfortable in both types. Methods of expression, appearance, purpose of communication, conditions, etc. There are a number of features (oral speech, written speech, formal speech, stage speech, public speaking, literary speech, indirect speech, indirect speech, organized and unorganized speech, etc.) that differ in different parameters from each other. In the process of training, a future specialist should gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills in constructing monologic speech and dialogic speech. Key words: skills, monologue speech, dialogic speech, speech development, new technologies

Активизация коммуникативной деятельности младших школьников на уроках окружающего мира (Часть 1)

The article proposes for discussion the contribution of primary schoolchildren studying the subject “The World Around Us” to the development of their speech and verbal communication. Based on the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard for Primary General Education and the Federal Educational Program for Primary General Education, the methodology for developing dialogic speech (educational dialogues, didactic games), as well as descriptions and narratives in younger schoolchildren is revealed.

Formation des compétences langagières à travers le jeu de rôle Moot court: enseignement du français à des fins spécifiques dans des groupes multilingues

The effectiveness of professional role play in studying foreign languages for specific purposes is the research subject of this paper. For these purposes, the authors studied and analyzed the legal role play, or in other words, the legal competition Moot Court intended for students of legal faculties and institutions as an educational instrument or technology in teaching foreign languages. In the context of higher legal education, role-playing in a foreign language becomes a model close to the future profession since it serves to better understand its particularities and details and become aware of its importance, usefulness, and necessity. The authors showed to what extent and how professional role-playing games contribute to studying and mastering a foreign language, what functions they perform and how they can be used in foreign language classes to obtain greater success in class. The study's main conclusions are based on an analysis of the data obtained following the assessment of the student's knowledge after the experience. The authors are convinced that during the game and its preparation, the participating student carries out many different activities related to learning a foreign language as he acquires knowledge of new lexical and grammatical structures, the syntax of a legal text and its terminology, the skills of dialogic speech and monologue, the ability to express oneself on professional subjects. Due to the motivational nature of the game and its properties of involving a student in a real creative and educational process, the acquisition of new linguistic knowledge occurs very actively and effectively.

Формирование умения младших школьников структурировать программный материал в процессе решения учебной задачи

This article presents the results of a study devoted to determining the procedure for developing the ability of primary schoolchildren to select and structure educational information to solve an educational task. The study was based on the assumption that the ability to work with educational material necessary to complete an educational task, methodically correctly structuring it, will influence the effectiveness of the results of educational activities. For this purpose, a procedure for developing this skill was developed, which includes three interconnected, logically constructed stages. At the first stage, junior schoolchildren were presented with a sample of constructing reasoning about the selection of program material necessary to perform a specific educational task, where the role of the teacher was played by a student who was able to explain the reasoning and justify the sequence of operations. The purpose of the second stage is to test a methodology for similar work on teaching the structuring of program material in dialogic speech, where one of the younger schoolchildren acts as a teacher, and the second as a student, then the roles change. Based on the results of the work, an intermediate conclusion was made about its effectiveness (quality of completion of the educational task) and the correctness of the choice of teaching methods for structuring the “working” material. At the third stage, the task was set of teaching the transmission of program material structured in accordance with the logic of reasoning in the process of dialogic speech with the participation of several partners. The results of the study allow us to speak about the significance of this skill and its impact on the effectiveness of educational activities. It is concluded that the method proposed by the author is effective, as evidenced by the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the results of the experimental work. Mastering this skill also leads to other pedagogical results: enriching the learning experience of younger schoolchildren, promoting mastery of forms of logical reasoning, and stimulating the cognitive activity of younger schoolchildren.

Культурно-специфические особенности реализации речевой модели коммуникативного давления (на примере американской лингвокультуры)

The article is devoted to the study of the communicative pressure speech model functioning, based on the rhetorical device of sarcasm in the context of American linguaculture. The work analyzes the mechanism by which communicative pressure is carried out, the features of the relationship between the components of its model and their nature. The research material is represented by the products of English-language oral interpersonal discourse, namely, dialogic statements borrowed from American films. A three-component model which makes it possible for the pressure to function consists of logos, ethos and pathos, and the confrontational nature of its impact is determined by a conflictogene involved in the model of its implementation. The research makes a conclusion about the implementation of a complex three-stage mechanism of the communicative pressure model during the manifestation of sarcasm in speech. The article establishes the primary nature of logos conflictogenes in a sarcastic statement, which can be represented by various forms of absurdity. The analysis of the linguistic material allows us to identify the features of the implementation of the pressure model in the American linguaculture in the process of localizing the global trend of aggressive speech interaction. Methods of implementation of logos conflictogenes, found in American dialogic speech, include both tactics of logical pragmatic absurdity and lexical and stylistic techniques that give rise to the process of violation and distortion of the semantics and expose semantic absurdity. The first group covers such techniques as breaking the semantic connection between statements, equating the part and the whole, reducing the semantic volume of a concept, and contrasting explicit and implicit knowledge. The second group is represented by an absurd hyperbolization, a simile, a metaphor, a zeugma. The absurdization of a speech utterance gives rise to the secondary pathos and ethos conflictogenes. Meanwhile, destructive pathos serves as an independent source of tertiary ethos conflictogenes caused by violation of ethical standards of interpersonal communication. The degree of an impact of communicative pressure can be intensified through various pragmastylistic means.

Speech-induced suppression during natural dialogues

When engaged in a conversation, one receives auditory information from the other’s speech but also from their own speech. However, this information is processed differently by an effect called Speech-Induced Suppression. Here, we studied brain representation of acoustic properties of speech in natural unscripted dialogues, using electroencephalography (EEG) and high-quality speech recordings from both participants. Using encoding techniques, we were able to reproduce a broad range of previous findings on listening to another’s speech, and achieving even better performances when predicting EEG signal in this complex scenario. Furthermore, we found no response when listening to oneself, using different acoustic features (spectrogram, envelope, etc.) and frequency bands, evidencing a strong effect of SIS. The present work shows that this mechanism is present, and even stronger, during natural dialogues. Moreover, the methodology presented here opens the possibility of a deeper understanding of the related mechanisms in a wider range of contexts.

Language wealth of primary school students, its tasks

When learners engage in spoken communication, they use language first. Mutual speech cooperation of two (or more) communicants based on dialogue based on the exchange of ideas, increasing consistency in finding a solution to a specific problem. An indepth study of the owners of any form of speech activity and their communicative and pragmatic features is an important gain. The growth of a person and his place in society is directly related to speech communication. The article talks about speech communication and its importance, functions of language, types of dialogue in dialogic speech.