UCD Language Symposium

‘Most Innovative Research’ Panel

Undergraduate researcher, Melina Sarian, did a fantastic job presenting her research project at the ‘Most Innovative Research’ Panel. Her work extends our project exploring device expressiveness to human voices.

Sarian, M., Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. Human vocal alignment to voice­AI is mediated by acoustic expressiveness. [Talk].UC Davis Symposium on Language Research. Davis, CA.

Dynamics of Voice-AI Interaction Panel

Bruno Ferenc Segedin and I also presented two talks in our ‘Dynamics of Voice-AI Interaction’ ​panel

Cohn, M., Ferenc Segedin, B., & Zellou, G. Differences in cross­-generational prosodic alignment toward device and human voices [Talk]. UC Davis Symposium on Language Research. Davis, CA. 

Ferenc Segedin, B., Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. Perceptual adaptation to Amazon’s Alexa and human voices: asymmetries in learning and generalization of a novel accent across real and AI talkers. [Talk]. UC Davis Symposium on Language Research. Davis, CA.