Speech prosody, the melodic and rhythmic properties of a language, plays a critical role in
our everyday communication. Researchers have identified unique patterns of prosody that …

One of the challenges in speech perception is that listeners must deal with considerable
segmental and suprasegmental variability in the acoustic signal due to differences between …

Speech from unfamiliar talkers can be difficult to comprehend initially. These difficulties tend
to dissipate with exposure, sometimes within minutes or less. Adaptivity in response to …

Conversational text-to-speech (TTS) aims to synthesize speech with proper prosody of reply
based on the historical conversation. However, it is still a challenge to comprehensively …

Speech perception depends on the ability to generalize previously experienced input
effectively across talkers. How such cross-talker generalization is achieved has remained an …

Different talkers speak differently, even within the same homogeneous group. These
differences lead to acoustic variability in speech, causing challenges for correct perception …

Prosody or “melody in speech” in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is often perceived as
atypical. This study examined perception and production of statements and questions in 84 …

Individuals vary in how they produce speech. This variability affects both the segments
(vowels and consonants) and the suprasegmental properties of their speech (prosody) …

Exposure to unfamiliar non-native speech tends to improve comprehension. One hypothesis
holds that listeners adapt to non-native-accented speech through distributional learning—by …

The language system uses syntactic, semantic, as well as prosodic cues to efficiently guide
auditory sentence comprehension. Prosodic cues, such as pitch accents, can build …