18 November: DCLRS -- November 19, 2004 -- Fred Cummins
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Speaker: Dr. Fred Cummins, UCD
venue: Davis Lecture Theatre (Arts Building Room 2043)
Trinity College, University of Dublin
time: 4:00-6:00, Friday, November 19, 2004
title:
Poking Speech: Ways to Entrain a Speaker
abstract:
Experiments which explore the temporal constraints operative in speech
production will be presented. All the experiments approach the
speech-producer as a dynamical system which may, potentially, be
entrained by a suitable stimulus. In Speech Cycling experiments, an
external metronome provides a forcing function which reveals some
simple intrinsic rhythmic properties of the system. In Synchronous
Speech, speech itself is used to entrain speech. Recent results in
Synchronous Speech experiments help to develop theories about the
nature of variability in speech production.
This work is not strictly computational, but will partly compensate for
that lacuna by being of potential interest to those interested in
embodied approaches to cognition, motor control and applied dynamical
systems approaches.
Relevant publications:
Cummins, F. (2003). Practice and performance in speech produced
synchronously. Journal of Phonetics, 31(2):139-148.
ftp://cspeech.ucd.ie/pub/fred/pubs/jPhon02.pdf
and
Cummins, F. and Port, R. F. (1998) Rhythmic constraints on stress
timing in English. Journal of Phonetics, 26(2):145-171.
ftp://cspeech.ucd.ie/pub/fred/pubs/jphon97.pdf
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