Language Proficiency and F0 Entrainment: A Study of L2 English Imitation in Italian, French, and Slovak Speakers

no code implementations • 16 Apr 2024 • Zheng Yuan, Štefan Beňuš, Alessandro D'Ausilio

This study explores F0 entrainment in second language (L2) English speech imitation during an Alternating Reading Task (ART).

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ART: The Alternating Reading Task Corpus for Speech Entrainment and Imitation

no code implementations • 3 Apr 2024 • Zheng Yuan, Dorina De Jong, Štefan Beňuš, Noël Nguyen, Ruitao Feng, Róbert Sabo, Luciano Fadiga, Alessandro D`Ausilio

We introduce the Alternating Reading Task (ART) Corpus, a collection of dyadic sentence reading for studying the entrainment and imitation behaviour in speech communication.

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Relationship between auditory and semantic entrainment using Deep Neural Networks (DNN)

no code implementations • 27 Dec 2023 • Jay Kejriwal, Štefan Beňuš

We found people's tendency to entrain on semantic features more when compared to auditory features.

Entrainment profiles: Comparison by gender, role, and feature set

no code implementations • 29 May 2018 • Uwe D. Reichel, Štefan Beňuš, Katalin Mády

We examine prosodic entrainment in cooperative game dialogs for new feature sets describing register, pitch accent shape, and rhythmic aspects of utterances.