Speaking Human---Beyond Humanizing AI

What makes speech produced in the presence of noise (Lombard speech) more intelligible than conversational speech produced in quiet conditions? This study investigates the hypothesis that speakers modify their speech in the presence of noise in such a ...

In this paper we examine the two-way relationship between hyperarticulation and evidence of misrecognition of computer-directed speech. We report the results of an experiment in which speakers spoke to a simulated speech recognizer and received text ...

A new data-driven approach to building a speaking rate-dependent hierarchical prosodic model (SR-HPM), directly from a large prosody-unlabeled speech database containing utterances of various speaking rates, to describe the influences of speaking rate on ...