Variability of speech rhythm in synchronous speech

Speakers are able to speak in synchrony to another speaker or to a recording of another speaker. The present research studied whether and, if yes, speakers change their speech rhythm when synchronizing to another speaker. We developed a measure (SRratio) which monitors on a scale between 0 and 1 whether the durational characteristics of a speaker’s synchronous speech are closer to his/her own read speech or closer to the characteristics of the speech of the speaker he/she is synchronizing to. Four speakers (synchronization speakers) synchronizing to twelve recorded sentences produced by four other speakers (target speakers) were studied. The durational characteristics we analyzed were %V and nPVIv. Results for SRratio suggest that complex processes are going on with main effects for synchronization speakers and target speakers and interaction of the two factors. Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-75723 Published Version Originally published at: Dellwo, Volker; Friedrichs, Daniel (2012). Variability of speech rhythm in synchronous speech. In: Ma, Qiuwu; Ding, Hongwei; Hirst, Daniel. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody. Shanghai: Tongji University Press, 539-542. Variability of speech rhythm in synchronous speech Volker Dellwo & Daniel Friedrichs Phonetics Laboratory, University of Zurich, Switzerland [email protected], [email protected]