Clear speech - Mere Speech? How segmental and prosodic speech reduction shape the impression that speakers create on listeners

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2017-August, Issue , 2017, Pages 894-898

  Niebuhr, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Perception; Personality traits; Speech reduction

Indexed keywords

ROBOTICS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH; TITANIUM SHEET;

DEGREE OF REDUCTION; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; PERSONALITY TRAITS; REDUCTION LEVEL; REDUCTION MODELS; SOCIAL ROBOTICS; SPEECH APPLICATIONS; SYSTEMATIC EFFECTS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85039173971     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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