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| author | Tanner, James Sonderegger, Morgan Stuart-Smith, Jane Kendall, Tyler Mielke, Jeff Dodsworth, Robin Thomas, Erik |
| author_facet | Tanner, James Sonderegger, Morgan Stuart-Smith, Jane Kendall, Tyler Mielke, Jeff Dodsworth, Robin Thomas, Erik |
| contents | Speech rate has been shown to vary across social categories such as gender, age, and dialect, while also being conditioned by properties of speech planning. The effect of utterance length, where speech rate is faster and less variable for longer utterances, has also been shown to reduce the role of social factors once it has been accounted for, leaving unclear the relationship between social factors and speech production in conditioning speech rate. Through modelling of speech rate across 13 English speech corpora, it is found that utterance length has the largest effect on speech rate, though this effect itself varies little across corpora and speakers. While age and gender also modulate speech rate, their effects are much smaller in magnitude. These findings suggest utterance length effects may be conditioned by articulatory and perceptual constraints, and that social influences on speech rate should be interpreted in the broader context of how speech rate variation is structured. |
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| spellingShingle | Exploring the anatomy of articulation rate in spontaneous English speech: relationships between utterance length effects and social factors Tanner, James Sonderegger, Morgan Stuart-Smith, Jane Kendall, Tyler Mielke, Jeff Dodsworth, Robin Thomas, Erik Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing Speech rate has been shown to vary across social categories such as gender, age, and dialect, while also being conditioned by properties of speech planning. The effect of utterance length, where speech rate is faster and less variable for longer utterances, has also been shown to reduce the role of social factors once it has been accounted for, leaving unclear the relationship between social factors and speech production in conditioning speech rate. Through modelling of speech rate across 13 English speech corpora, it is found that utterance length has the largest effect on speech rate, though this effect itself varies little across corpora and speakers. While age and gender also modulate speech rate, their effects are much smaller in magnitude. These findings suggest utterance length effects may be conditioned by articulatory and perceptual constraints, and that social influences on speech rate should be interpreted in the broader context of how speech rate variation is structured. |
| title | Exploring the anatomy of articulation rate in spontaneous English speech: relationships between utterance length effects and social factors |
| topic | Computation and Language Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06732 |