Acoustic and linguistic features influence talker change detection

Sharma, Neeraj; Krishnamohan, Venkat; Ganapathy, Sriram; Gangopadhayay, Ahana; Fink, Lauren

doi:10.1121/10.0002462

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“…LFE means that listeners perform better in native voice identity processing compared to that of nonnative voice identity processing. The superiority of the native language was first proposed by Thompson (1987) and has been widely demonstrated in the field of voice identity recognition ( Goggin et al, 1991 ; Zarate et al, 2015 ) and voice identity discrimination ( Winters et al, 2008 ; Wester, 2012 ; Sharma et al, 2020 ).…”

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The mechanism of phonetic information in voice identity discrimination: a comparative study based on sighted and blind people

Ming,

Geng,

Zhao

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine whether phonetic information functions and how phonetic information affects voice identity processing in blind people.MethodTo address the first inquiry, 25 normal sighted participants and 30 blind participants discriminated voice identity, when listening forward speech and backward speech from their own native language and another unfamiliar language. To address the second inquiry, combining articulatory suppression paradigm, 26 normal sighted participants and 26 blind participants discriminated voice identity, when listening forward speech from their own native language and another unfamiliar language.ResultsIn Experiment 1, not only in the voice identity discrimination task with forward speech, but also in the discrimination task with backward speech, both the sighted and blind groups showed the superiority of the native language. This finding supports the view that backward speech still retains some phonetic information, and indicates that phonetic information can affect voice identity processing in sighted and blind people. In addition, only the superiority of the native language of sighted people was regulated by the speech manner, which is related to articulatory rehearsal. In Experiment 2, only the superiority of the native language of sighted people was regulated by articulatory suppression. This indicates that phonetic information may act in different ways on voice identity processing in sighted and blind people.ConclusionThe heightened dependence on voice source information in blind people appears not to undermine the function of phonetic information, but it appears to change the functional mechanism of phonetic information. These findings suggest that the present phonetic familiarity model needs to be improved with respect to the mechanism of phonetic information.

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The mechanism of phonetic information in voice identity discrimination: a comparative study based on sighted and blind people

Ming,

Geng,

Zhao

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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“…In the present study, we focus on the perceptual categorization of non-vocal material into speech-like vs. music-like, as well as the role of familiarity in shaping these categories. Familiarity/culture effects on the perception of speech and music are well-described ( Palmer and Krumhansl, 1987 ; Morrison and Demorest, 2009 ; Perrachione et al, 2011 ; Bregman and Creel, 2014 ; Sharma et al, 2020 ). With respect to timbre, familiar sound sources are recognized more quickly than unfamiliar ones ( Siedenburg and McAdams, 2016 ).…”

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Perception of Nigerian Dùndún Talking Drum Performances as Speech-Like vs. Music-Like: The Role of Familiarity and Acoustic Cues

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It seems trivial to identify sound sequences as music or speech, particularly when the sequences come from different sound sources, such as an orchestra and a human voice. Can we also easily distinguish these categories when the sequence comes from the same sound source? On the basis of which acoustic features? We investigated these questions by examining listeners’ classification of sound sequences performed by an instrument intertwining both speech and music: the dùndún talking drum. The dùndún is commonly used in south-west Nigeria as a musical instrument but is also perfectly fit for linguistic usage in what has been described as speech surrogates in Africa. One hundred seven participants from diverse geographical locations (15 different mother tongues represented) took part in an online experiment. Fifty-one participants reported being familiar with the dùndún talking drum, 55% of those being speakers of Yorùbá. During the experiment, participants listened to 30 dùndún samples of about 7s long, performed either as music or Yorùbá speech surrogate (n = 15 each) by a professional musician, and were asked to classify each sample as music or speech-like. The classification task revealed the ability of the listeners to identify the samples as intended by the performer, particularly when they were familiar with the dùndún, though even unfamiliar participants performed above chance. A logistic regression predicting participants’ classification of the samples from several acoustic features confirmed the perceptual relevance of intensity, pitch, timbre, and timing measures and their interaction with listener familiarity. In all, this study provides empirical evidence supporting the discriminating role of acoustic features and the modulatory role of familiarity in teasing apart speech and music.

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Is It Possible to Recognize a Speaker Without Listening? Unraveling Conversation Dynamics in Multi-Party Interactions Using Continuous Eye Gaze

Durrani,

Liu,

Ishi

et al. 2024

IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett.

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Acoustic and linguistic features influence talker change detection

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

The mechanism of phonetic information in voice identity discrimination: a comparative study based on sighted and blind people

The mechanism of phonetic information in voice identity discrimination: a comparative study based on sighted and blind people

Perception of Nigerian Dùndún Talking Drum Performances as Speech-Like vs. Music-Like: The Role of Familiarity and Acoustic Cues

Is It Possible to Recognize a Speaker Without Listening? Unraveling Conversation Dynamics in Multi-Party Interactions Using Continuous Eye Gaze

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