Recent posts

Beier, E.*, Cohn, M*, Trammel, T., Ferreira, F., & Zellou, G. (accepted). Marking Prosodic Prominence for Voice-AI and Human Addressees. Marking Prosodic Prominence for Voice-AI and Human Addressees.

* co-first authors

Check it out! https://publishing.aip.org/publications/latest-content/machine-listening-making-speech-recognition-systems-more-inclusive/

Machine Listening: Making Speech Recognition Systems More Inclusive

We’re thrilled that our paper was accepted to the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA).

Comparing perception of L1 and L2 English by human listeners and machines: Effect of interlocutor adaptations by grad students Jules Vonessen and Nick Aoki, Georgia Zellou, and myself.

This paper is part of a special issue: Acoustic Cue–Based Perception and Production of Speech by Humans and Machines.

The UC Davis Phonetics Lab and Language Learning Lab hosted our Speech Science booth at the 2024 UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 20th at the Children’s Discovery Fair!

I organized the booth and activities: we had spectrograms / waveforms that adults & kids could circle to learn about the components of speech, as well as a ‘Bot or Not’ experiment they could try to determine if speakers were text-to-speech (TTS) or human voices.

We’re thrilled that our paper, “Linguistic Patterning of Laughter in Human-Socialbot Interactions”, led by Nynaeve Perkins Booker, along with Georgia Zellou, was accepted to Frontiers in Communications.

We’re excited to share that our paper on age-graded changes in vowel perception in California English was accepted to Glossa!

Zellou, G., & Cohn, M. Apparent-time change in the use of multiple cues for perception of anticipatory nasal coarticulation in California English. 

Thrilled that our paper was accepted to the Journal of Acoustical Society of America Express Letters (JASA-EL) Special Issue: Acoustic Cue–Based Perception and Production of Speech by Humans and Machines:

Cohn, M., Mengesha, Z., Lahav, M., & Heldreth, C. African American English speakers’ pitch variation and rate adjustments for imagined technological and human addressees”

Believing Anthropomorphism:  Examining the Role of Anthropomorphic Cues on Trust in Large Language Models

• Michelle Cohn UC Davis, Google Research
• Mahima Pushkarna Google Research
• Gbolahan Olanubi, Google Research
• Joseph Moran Google Research
• Daniel Padgett, Google Research
• Zion Mengesha, Stanford, Google Research
• Courtney Heldreth, Google Research

Do People Mirror Emotion Differently with a Human or TTS Voice? Comparing Listener Ratings and Word Embeddings

• Michelle Cohn, UC Davis
• Grisha Bandodkar, UC Davis
• Raj Bharat Sangani, UC Irvine
• Kristin Predeck, Amazon, UC Davis
• Georgia Zellou, UC Davis

I’m excited to serve on the editorial board for the Speech Section of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) for January-December 2024.

Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (accepted). Selective tuning of nasal coarticulation and hyperarticulation across clear, casual, and fast speech styles. Journal of Acoustical Society of America (JASA) Express Letters.