The present study is devoted to measuring speech entrainment between interlocutors of varying social distance based on their vowels’ characteristics. 5 degrees of social distance were taken into consideration: siblings, friends, strangers of same and opposite gender, and strangers of significantly different age and social status. Speaker-dependent acoustic models of cardinal Russian vowels /i/, /a/, and /u/ were constructed and compared. We hypothesized that entrainment would be the strongest between siblings and decrease with increasing social distance. However, it was found that while entrainment is indeed strong for siblings, friends actually show less entrainment than strangers. Same-gender pairs showed stronger entrainment than opposite-gender pairs. Entrainment was also found to be vowel-dependent, with /a/ exhibiting the most variation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationText, Speech, and Dialogue - 24th International Conference, TSD 2021, Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication24th International Conference, TSD 2021, Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 6–9, 2021, Proceedings
EditorsKamil Ekštein, František Pártl, Miloslav Konopík
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages550-557
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-83527-9
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-83527-9
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Sep 2021
EventText, Speech, and Dialogue: 24th International Conference - Olomouc, Czech Republic
Duration: 6 Sep 20219 Sep 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12848 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceText, Speech, and Dialogue
Abbreviated titleTSD 2021
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityOlomouc
Period6/09/219/09/21

    Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

    Research areas

  • GMM, MFCC, Phonetic entrainment, Sociophonetics, Vowels

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