Towards measuring continuous acoustic feature convergence in unconstrained spoken dialogues

Kousidis, Spyros; Dorran, David; Wang, Yi; Vaughan, Brian; Cullen, Charlie; Campbell, Dermot; McDonnell, Ciaran; Coyle, Eugene

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2008-369

Cited by 22 publications

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“…In Kousidis et al's (2008) study, for instance, speakers were found to converge early during the interaction regarding voice intensity and speech rate. In the study conducted by Delvaux and Soquet (2007), only a couple of trials were necessary to obtain the imitation effect of a different regional dialect.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Phonetic convergence, in particular, correlates with a positive evaluation towards the conversational partner, enables communication efficiency, and helps to establish common ground during interactions, reinforcing thus social affiliation (Kousidis et al, 2008(Kousidis et al, , 2009Lee et al, 2010;Louwerse et al, 2012). From a listener's standpoint, the degree of pulse convergence between two interlocutors (but not meter convergence) has been associated with the degree of friendliness and social bonding between them (Polyanskaya et al, 2019; understanding pulse as a regularly recurring acoustic event, and meter as a structured pattern of accentuation of groups of pulses).…”

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“…This was the case in Lelong and Bailly's (2011) study, in which no sign of an increase of resemblance was found regarding renditions of vowels. Furthermore, considering that interlocutors pass through different phases during conversations (i.e., reflecting, arguing, giving feedback), the amount of phonetic resemblance between them may also fluctuate depending on their mental state and degree of involvement (De Looze et al, 2014;Edlund et al, 2009;Kousidis et al, 2009). For example, analyzing prosodic accommodation in Japanese dyadic telephone conversations, De Looze et al (2014) found that the resemblance between interlocutors did not continuously increase or decrease over time.…”

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Phonetic Accommodation During Conversational Interactions: An Overview

Birchenall¹

2023

Rev. Guillermo Ockham

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During conversational interactions such as tutoring, instruction-giving tasks, verbal negotiations, or just talking with friends, interlocutors’ behaviors experience a series of changes due to the characteristics of their counterpart and to the interaction itself. These changes are pervasively present in every social interaction, and most of them occur in the sounds and rhythms of our speech, which is known as acoustic-prosodic accommodation, or simply phonetic accommodation. The consequences, linguistic and social constraints, and underlying cognitive mechanisms of phonetic accommodation have been studied for at least 50 years, due to the importance of the phenomenon to several disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, and sociology. Based on the analysis and synthesis of the existing empirical research literature, in this paper we present a structured and comprehensive review of the qualities, functions, onto- and phylogenetic development, and modalities of phonetic accommodation.

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Phonetic Accommodation During Conversational Interactions: An Overview

Birchenall¹

2023

Rev. Guillermo Ockham

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“…Entrer en interaction avec un individu provoque très souvent des adaptations de certains paramètres vocaux ou de parole. C'est notamment ce qu'observe De Looze (2012) sur l'adaptation de la fréquence fondamentale lors de conversations téléphoniques et Kousidis & al (2008) sur des adaptations d'intensité lors de conversations naturelles entre deux individus. Endlund (2009) observe également une adaptation des temps de pauses sur une conversation d'une trentaine de minutes entre deux individus.…”

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Variations de débit articulatoire sur un corpus conversationnel avec différents types d'interactions

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Meunier²,

Fougeron³

2022

XXXIVe Journées d'Études Sur La Parole -- JEP 2022

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Des questions actuelles (robotiques, judiciaires, etc.) recourent au besoin de mieux comprendre les caracte ŕistiques de la parole des individus. Les recherches, dans ce domaine se heurtent re ǵulie rement aux questions de variabilite ́ (intra et inter-locuteurs), tout particulie rement en situation de parole spontane é. Cette e tude vise a ̀ mieux cerner les variations de de bit des locuteurs dans un corpus de parole spontane é en prenant en compte diffe ŕents facteurs pouvant influencer leur production tel que le type d'interaction. 16 locuteurs sont analyse ś dans un corpus de dialogues conversationnels. Nos re śultats montrent que les locuteurs ont, en moyenne, un de bit plus e ĺeve ́ en parole conversationnelle qu'en parole lue avec une variation inter-locuteurs assez forte. On observe malgré tout un important chevauchement des valeurs pour l'ensemble des locuteurs. Une observation plus fine des dialogues ne montre pas d'influence du type d'interaction mais confirme une adaptation du débit à l'interlocuteur.

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“…Recent works on (automatically) measuring prosodic alignment include the so-called TAMA method, proposed by [5]. It is based on a 'time-aligned moving average': by calculating moving averages of the acoustic features under investigation, a visual inspection of alignment is facilitated.…”

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confidence: 99%