[HTML][HTML] Being clear about clear speech: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed, non-native-directed, and casual speech for L1-and L2-English listeners

NB Aoki, G Zellou - Journal of Phonetics, 2024 - Elsevier
Relative to one's default (casual) speech, clear speech contains acoustic modifications that
are often perceptually beneficial. Clear speech encompasses many different styles, yet most …

Visual information affects adaptation to novel talkers: Ethnicity-specific and ethnicity-independent learning of L2-accented speech

NB Aoki, G Zellou - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Comparing perception of L1 and L2 English by human listeners and machines: Effect of interlocutor adaptations

J Vonessen, NB Aoki, M Cohn, G Zellou - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Speakers tailor their speech to different types of interlocutors. For example, speech directed
to voice technology has different acoustic-phonetic characteristics than speech directed to a …