Speaker Normalization in Speech Perception
By Keith Johnson, Matthias J. Sjerps. The Handbook of Speech Perception, 2008
328 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Talkers differ from each other in a great many ways. Some of the difference is in the choice of linguistic variants for particular words, as immortalized in the song by George and Ira Gershwin “Let’s call the whole thing off”.You say either [iðɚ] and I say either [aᴵðɚ],You say neither [niðɚ] and I say neither [naᴵðɚ]Either[ iðɚ], either [aᴵðɚ] Neither [niðɚ], neither [naᴵðɚ]Let's call the whole thing off.You like potato and I like potahtoYou like tomato and I like tomahtoPotato, potahto, Tomato, tomahto.Let's call the whole thing offListeners have experienced different pronunciations of words, and many of the variants that we know are tinged with social or personal nuance. This “multiple-listing” notion, that listeners store more than one variant of each word in memory is the dominant hypothesis, among sociolinguists regarding the cognitive representation of social phonetic variation (Thomas, 2011), and has been proposed as a way to account for the listeners’s ability to ‘normalize’ for talker differences in speech perception (Johnson, 1997).
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- The Neural Integration of Speaker and Message (2008, background): “However, rather than rapidly disregarding voice-based cues to who the speaker is, listeners, in fact, use these cues in the earliest stages of speech signal processing (for reviews, see Johnson, 2005; Nygaard, 2005; Thomas, 2002).”
- The Modulation Transfer Function for Speech Intelligibility (2009, background): “Alternatively, the perception of vocal masculinity could depend more on gender-specific articulatory behaviors which account for social ‘‘dialectal’’ gender cues distinguishing even pre-pubescent speakers [37].”
- Exploring how deep neural networks form phonemic categories (2015, methodology): “Only vowels were used in this analysis because vowels (not consonants) are primarily responsible for conveying speaker information [18].”