Research into the neural foundation of perception asserts a model where top-down
predictions modulate the bottom-up processing of sensory input. Despite becoming …

Purpose Many populations in the scope of speech and language pathologists (SLPs) are at
risk of prosodic disorders that can impact communicative ability. While a few studies have …

Purpose: Autistic individuals often face challenges perceiving and expressing emotions,
potentially stemming from differences in speech prosody. Here we explore how autism …

Self-attention mechanisms have enabled transformers to achieve superhuman-level
performance on many speech-to-text (STT) tasks, yet the challenge of automatic prosodic …

Introduction Calls via video apps, mobile phones and similar digital channels are a rapidly
growing form of speech communication. Such calls are not only—and perhaps less and less …

Since the advent of modern computing, researchers have striven to make the human–
computer interface (HCI) as seamless as possible. Progress has been made on various …

Previous literature recommends using stylistic (or rhetorical) devices in presentations such
as rhetorical questions (RQs: Does anyone want bad teeth?) to make them more …

Computer-assisted prosody training (CAPT) has so far mainly been used to teach foreign
languages, although prosody is still hardly taken into account in language learning …

In Zeiten einer Krise, wie beispielsweise der globalen COVID-19-Pandemie, beobachten
und berichten Wissenschaftler* innen weltweit einen Anstieg von Hasskommentaren in den …

This chapter reports on a corpus study on the ironic tone of voice using a multimodal corpus,
from which ironic constructions, that is, pairings of a form and an ironic meaning, and their …