In New Zealand English there is a merger-in-progress of the near and square diphthongs.
This paper investigates the consequences of this merger for speech perception. We report …

This study had two aims:(a) to establish whether interpersonal impressions made from visual
speech followed the same patterns as those made from auditory speech; and (b) to …

Speech intelligibility is improved when the listener can see the talker in addition to hearing
their voice. Notably, though, previous work has suggested that this “audiovisual benefit” for …

Listeners extract cues to speaker identity from the speech stream. Recent evidence suggests
that listeners will also perceive these socioindexical cues, even if absent, when primed to …

This study investigated the relationship between clearly produced and plain citation form
speech styles and motion of visible articulators. Using state-of-the-art computer-vision and …

The use of face coverings can make communication more difficult by removing access to
visual cues as well as affecting the physical transmission of speech sounds. This study …

Prior work demonstrates that exposure to speakers of the same accent facilitates
comprehension of a novel talker with the same accent (accent-specific learning). Moreover …

Recent research has uncovered an intriguing relationship between vowel perception and
social characteristics, so that the gender of a speaker appears to influence vowel perception …

Human face-to-face communication is multimodal: it comprises speech as well as visual
cues, such as articulatory and limb gestures. In the current study, we assess how iconic …

Visual cues facilitate speech perception during face-to-face communication, particularly in
noisy environments. These visual-driven enhancements arise from both automatic lip …