Press & Outreach

Press

Press for ASA Talk (Zellou & Cohn, 2023)

• StudyFinds: AI baby talk? People change their voice while talking to Alexa and Siri (5/9/23)
• Acoustical Society of America: Hey Siri, can you hear me?

Press for face-masked speech paper (Cohn, Pycha & Zellou, 2021). Click here to read the paper in ‘Cognition’

• In Focus [article]. “Speech Unmasked: UWM linguist studies how masks impact intelligibility” (3/2021)

• CBS 58 Milwaukee On-Air News Segment [article/video]. “Researchers look at how masks impact communication (3/18/21)

• Equinox [article] “Unmask Masked Speech” (3/6/21)

• US News & World Report [article] “As Mask-Wearing Prevails, People Are Adapting to Understanding Speech” (2/8/21)

• Ladders [article] “This is how you can make masked conversations 100% more successful” (2/8/21)

• WFMY Greensboro On-Air News Segment [article] [video] “What did you say? How masks affect your communication & understanding” (2/4/21)

• KCBS San Francisco (106.9FM AND 740AM) Live Interview with Rebecca Corral [article] [recording] “UC Davis conducts study on how wearing a mask affects our speech patterns” (2/3/21)

• CBS-13 Sacramento On-Air News Segment [article] [video] “UC Davis Study Finds Face Masks Do Not Impact Ability To Communicate” (2/2/21)

• UC Davis Press Release [article] “Speaking and Listening Seem More Difficult in a Masked World, But People Are Adapting” (2/2/21)

Take our Children to Work (TOC) Day 2023

We hosted families at the UC Davis Phonetics Lab for the 2023 Take Our Children to Work Day on April 27th. Children and adults participated in a real speech science experiment and learned more about the research we do at the PhonLab! Thanks to all who visited!

Linguistics outreach

“Phonologically motivated phonetic repair strategies in Siri- and human-directed speech”. in the 5 Minute Linguist competition at the 2019 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) annual meeting.  (2:30 John McWhorter introduction, Talk 3:23-7:31)