Prosodic Entrainment and Tutoring Dialogue Success

This study investigates the relationships between student entrainment to a tutoring dialogue system and learning. By finding the features of prosodic entrainment which correlate with learning, we hope to inform educational dialogue systems aiming to leverage entrainment. We propose a novel method to measure prosodic entrainment and find specific features which correlate with user learning. We also find differences in user entrainment with respect to tutor voice and user gender.