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Modeling turn-taking with distant viewing: investigating silence thresholds in human and AI-generated discourse

Taylor Arnold, Nicolas Ballier, Artem Saloev

arXiv:2607.18076Published July 20, 20260 citations
  • cs.CL

Abstract

This study investigates silence gaps in two kinds of audiovisual material. We analysed thirty US situational comedies and fifty-one synthetic podcasts generated with Google NotebookLM. Gaps were compared across speaker gender, assigned from a fundamental-frequency threshold estimated in Praat, and across production settings.

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