Search Results - "Zellou, Georgia"

Linguistic disparities in cross-language automatic speech recognition transfer from Arabic to Tashlhiyt by Zellou, Georgia, Lahrouchi, Mohamed

“…Tashlhiyt is a low-resource language with respect to acoustic databases, language corpora, and speech technology tools, such as Automatic Speech Recognition…”
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Nasal coarticulation changes over time in Philadelphia English by Zellou, Georgia, Tamminga, Meredith

“…This study examines change over time in coarticulatory vowel nasality in both real and apparent time in Philadelphia English. We measure nasal-adjacent vowels…”
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Voice accentedness, but not gender, affects social responses to a computer tutor by Jones, Allison, Zellou, Georgia

“…The current study had two goals: First, we aimed to conduct a conceptual replication and extension of a classic study by Nass et al. in 1997 who found that…”
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Linguistic analysis of human-computer interaction by Zellou, Georgia, Holliday, Nicole

“…This article reviews recent literature investigating speech variation in production and comprehension during spoken language communication between humans and…”
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Perception of Mandarin tones across different phonological contexts by native and tone-naive listeners by Vonessen, Jules, Zellou, Georgia

“…Coarticulation is a type of speech variation where sounds take on phonetic properties of adjacent sounds. Listeners generally display perceptual compensation,…”
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Apparent-time variation in the use of multiple cues for perception of anticipatory nasal coarticulation in California English by Zellou, Georgia, Cohn, Michelle

“…This study examines apparent-time variation in the use of multiple acoustic cues present on coarticulatorily nasalized vowels in California English…”
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The influence of accent and device usage on perceived credibility during interactions with voice-AI assistants by Pycha, Anne, Zellou, Georgia

“…Voice-AI assistants offer innovative ways for people to interact with technology, such as delivering search results through human-sounding voices. Unlike…”
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Prosodic Differences in Human- and Alexa-Directed Speech, but Similar Local Intelligibility Adjustments by Cohn, Michelle, Zellou, Georgia

“…The current study tests whether individuals ( n = 53) produce distinct speech adaptations during pre-scripted spoken interactions with a voice-AI assistant…”
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Children and adults produce distinct technology- and human-directed speech by Cohn, Michelle, Barreda, Santiago, Graf Estes, Katharine, Yu, Zhou, Zellou, Georgia

“…This study compares how English-speaking adults and children from the United States adapt their speech when talking to a real person and a smart speaker…”
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Lexical competition influences coarticulatory variation in French: comparing competition from nasal and oral vowel minimal pairs by Zellou, Georgia, Chitoran, Ioana

“…It is hypothesized that the phonological status of a phonetic feature across languages predicts patterns of coarticulatory variation. In French, vowel nasality…”
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The perception of vowelless words in Tashlhiyt by Zellou, Georgia, Lahrouchi, Mohamed, Bensoukas, Karim

“…This study examines the perceptual mechanisms involved in the processing of words without vowels, a lexical form that is common in Tashlhiyt but highly…”
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Face-Masked Speech Intelligibility: The Influence of Speaking Style, Visual Information, and Background Noise by Pycha, Anne, Cohn, Michelle, Zellou, Georgia

“…The current study investigates the intelligibility of face-masked speech while manipulating speaking style, presence of visual information about the speaker,…”
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Perceptual identification of oral and nasalized vowels across American English and British English listeners and TTS voices by Gwizdzinski, Jakub, Barreda, Santiago, Carignan, Christopher, Zellou, Georgia

“…Nasal coarticulation is when the lowering of the velum for a nasal consonant co-occurs with the production of an adjacent vowel, causing the vowel to become…”
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Age- and Gender-Related Differences in Speech Alignment Toward Humans and Voice-AI by Zellou, Georgia, Cohn, Michelle, Ferenc Segedin, Bruno

“…Speech alignment is where talkers subconsciously adopt the speech and language patterns of their interlocutor. Nowadays, people of all ages are speaking with…”
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Comparing alignment toward American, British, and Indian English text-to-speech (TTS) voices: influence of social attitudes and talker guise by Dodd, Nicole, Cohn, Michelle, Zellou, Georgia

“…Text-to-speech (TTS) voices, which vary in their apparent native language and dialect, are increasingly widespread. In this paper, we test how speakers…”
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Use of gradient anticipatory nasal coarticulatory cues for lexical perception in French by Zellou, Georgia, Pycha, Anne, Chitoran, Ioana

“…The current study examines anticipatory nasal coarticulation in French, a language which is known to exhibit a) quality differences between phonemically oral…”
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Linguistic patterning of laughter in human-socialbot interactions by Perkins Booker, Nynaeve, Cohn, Michelle, Zellou, Georgia

“…Laughter is a social behavior that conveys a variety of emotional states and is also intricately intertwined with linguistic communication. As people…”
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German Word-Final Devoicing in Naturally-Produced and TTS Speech by Block, Aleese, Predeck, Kristin, Zellou, Georgia

“…This study explores the production and perception of word-final devoicing in German across text-to-speech (from technology used in common voice-AI “smart”…”
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Speech Rate Adjustments in Conversations With an Amazon Alexa Socialbot by Cohn, Michelle, Liang, Kai-Hui, Sarian, Melina, Zellou, Georgia, Yu, Zhou

“…This paper investigates users’ speech rate adjustments during conversations with an Amazon Alexa socialbot in response to situational (in-lab vs. at-home) and…”
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The gradient influence of temporal extent of coarticulation on vowel and speaker perception by Zellou, Georgia, Pycha, Anne

“…Coarticulation makes vowels in context acoustically different from context-free vowels. Listeners sometimes compensate by ascribing these acoustic effects to…”
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