4 papers
Word Lengthening as a Function of Utterance Position: A Multi-Corpus Study
Mateo Cámara, José Luis Blanco, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente +2
Efficient turn-taking requires interlocutors to predict turn endings within a few hundred milliseconds. Beyond syntactic and pragmatic completion, prosody (especially pre-boundary…
Acoustic Landmark Detector based on Conformer and HuBERT
Mateo Cámara, José Luis Blanco, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente +2
Acoustic landmarks (abrupt acoustic changes tied to speech events) offer a linguistically grounded representation for speech analysis. We study automatic landmark detection with Co…
An Acoustic Landmark Database of the English Lexicon via Articulatory Synthesis
Mateo Cámara, José Luis Blanco, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente +2
Acoustic landmark theory treats speech as organized around the acoustic consequences of articulatory gestures that shape the vocal tract and airflow. Progress is limited by the sca…
Lexical Access Model for Italian -- Modeling human speech processing: identification of words in running speech toward lexical access based on the detection of landmarks and other acoustic cues to features
Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Jeung-Yoon Choi +4
Modelling the process that a listener actuates in deriving the words intended by a speaker requires setting a hypothesis on how lexical items are stored in memory. This work aims a…