4 accepted papers
Pre-trained acoustic representations such as wav2vec and DeCoAR have attained impressive word error rates (WER) for speech recognition benchmarks, particularly when labeled data is limited. But little is known about what phonetic properties these various representations acquire, and how well they en…
Automatic speech recognition is more and more widely and effectively used. Nevertheless, in some automatic speech analysis tasks the state of the art is surprisingly poor. One of these is “diarization”, the task of determining who spoke when. Diarization is key to processing meeting audio and clinic…
Vocal fry is an aperiodic phonation that is naturally associated with low pitch production. This study aims to examine whether vocal fry can affect people's perception of pitch range. A two-alternative-forced-choice task is used to test whether vocal fry can facilitate the "low pitch" perception, an…
We examined the production and perception of (contrastive) prosodic focus, using a paradigm based on digit strings, in which the same material and discourse contexts can be used in different languages. We found a striking difference between languages like English and Mandarin Chinese, where prosodic…