I’m excited to share that our paper has been accepted in Frontiers in Computer Science, Human-Media Interaction!
This paper is part of a special issue on Voice Assistant Systems in Team Interactions – Implications, Applications, and Future Perspectives
Georgia Zellou and I had a wonderful interview with Amy Quinton, of Unfold Podcast, at UC Davis on June 16th. We shared some of our research on human interactions with voice technology and discussed the implications for speech communication and language more generally. Stay tuned for the podcast!
Along with my co-authors, Ashley Keaton, Jonas Beskow, and Georgia Zellou, we have a new paper accepted in Language Sciences in a special issue “Communication Accommodation Theory at 50: Recent Developments” with Howard Giles!
We’re thrilled that our paper, “The effect of listener beliefs on perceptual learning: Comparing adaptation to a vowel shift across device and human guises”, by Georgia Zellou, myself, and Anne Pycha, has been accepted for publication at Language.
We have a new paper accepted to Interspeech 2023, “Cross-linguistic Emotion Perception in Human and TTS Voices”, led by Iona Gessinger, and our co-authors Georgia Zellou, Bernd Möbius, and Benjamin Cowan.
Have you ever wondered how you’re able to understand speech? Or how your mouth and tongue coordinate to produce it? Come to the UC Davis Phonetics Lab (Department of Linguistics), 251 Kerr Hall to directly participate in a real speech science experiment (ages 7-12).
The appointment is for 45 minutes: the experiment will take about 5 minutes. After, you’ll see a short presentation on our research and have time for kids (and adults!) to ask questions and get a tour of the lab.
Timeslots: 10am, 11am, 1pm [RSVP required]. Note that we can accommodate a maximum of 5 children for each time slot.
Participation in the experiment is voluntary; the study has been approved by the UC Davis Institutional Review Board (IRB) ethics committee. For more information about consent, go to: https://phonlab.ucdavis.edu/child-consent-participate-experiment-volunteer.
To sign up and to learn more about the Take our Children to Work events, please go to: https://hr.ucdavis.edu/departments/worklife-wellness/events/tocs.
Georgia Zellou and I have a talk at the Annual Acoustical Society of America conference in Chicago on May 9th:
This week I started as a consultant for Neurobehavioral Systems, a start-up in the Bay Area. I’m working on the CCAB Project (‘The California Cognitive Assessment Battery’ https://www.ccabresearch.com/), which uses remote and speech-based interactions for neuropsychological testing. We will be producing original research on the acoustic-prosodic features associated with various cognitive measures, and tracking changes over time.
Have you ever wondered how you’re able to understand speech? Or how your mouth and tongue coordinate to produce it? Come to the UC Davis Phonetics Lab (Department of Linguistics), 251 Kerr Hall to directly participate in a real speech science experiment (ages 7-12).
The appointment is for 45 minutes: the experiment will take about 5 minutes. After, you’ll see a short presentation on our research and have time for kids (and adults!) to ask questions and get a tour of the lab.
Timeslots: 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm [RSVP required]. Note that we can accommodate a maximum of 5 children for each time slot.
Participation in the experiment is voluntary; the study has been approved by the UC Davis Institutional Review Board (IRB) ethics committee. For more information about consent, go to:Â https://phonlab.ucdavis.edu/child-consent-participate-experiment-volunteer.
To sign up and to learn more about the Take our Children to Work events, please go to:Â https://hr.ucdavis.edu/departments/worklife-wellness/events/tocs.Â
We will be presenting speech science to children in a fun and accessible way. Kids can take part in a sample from real experiments (hearing sounds over headphones and making decisions on an iPad). We will also have low-tech activities where kids can learn about speech data, and be asked to draw where they think the different sounds are on laminated spectrograms.
Michelle Cohn 