Michelle Cohn
I’m a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Phonetics Lab in the UC Davis Department of Linguistics. I received my Ph.D in Linguistics in 2018 from UC Davis, as well. [bio]
I’m also currently a Visiting Researcher with the Google Responsible AI and Human-Centered Technology (HCT) User Experience (UX) Team. (provided by ProUnlimited)
My research program probes cognitive, social, & emotional factors in speech communication.
Broadly, I am interested in:
- Intelligibility: How do people adapt their speech across presumed and actual barriers (e.g., ASR systems, face-masks)? How do people adapt their listening based on these barriers?
- Sociophonetics & voice technology: Do people perceive sociophonetic properties of text-to-speech (TTS) voices? How do people apply speech behaviors from human-human interaction to voice assistants?
- Cognitive variation: How do cognitive factors shape the ways individuals produce and perceive speech (e.g., musical training, autistic-like traits, depressive characteristics)?
Types of methods I use:
- experiments in speech perception / production
- psycholinguistic paradigms
- acoustic-phonetic analyses
- user interaction studies (human-computer interaction)
Contact: mdcohn at ucdavis dot edu
Pronouns: she/her/hers
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