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The Effect of Soft,...
The Effect of Soft, Modal and Loud Voice Levels on Entrainment in Noisy Conditions
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- Székely, Éva (författare)
- School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Keane, Mark T (författare)
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Carson-Berndsen, Julie (författare)
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- 2015
- 2015
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Sixteenth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
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Abstract
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- Conversation partners have a tendency to adapt their vocal in- tensity to each other and to other social and environmental fac- tors. A socially adequate vocal intensity level by a speech syn- thesiser that goes beyond mere volume adjustment is highly de- sirable for a rewarding and successful human-machine or ma- chine mediated human-human interaction. This paper examines the interaction of the Lombard effect and speaker entrainment in a controlled experiment conducted with a confederate inter- locutor. The interlocutor was asked to maintain either a soft, a modal or a loud voice level during the dialogues. Through half of the trials, subjects were exposed to a cocktail party noise through headphones. The analytical results suggest that both the background noise and the interlocutor’s voice level affect the dynamics of speaker entrainment. Speakers appear to still en- train to the voice level of their interlocutor in noisy conditions, though to a lesser extent, as strategies of ensuring intelligibility affect voice levels as well. These findings could be leveraged in spoken dialogue systems and speech generating devices to help choose a vocal effort level for the synthetic voice that is both intelligible and socially suited to a specific interaction.
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- TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Annan elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)
- ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)
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