It has been shown for a number of languages that speakers accommodate to each other in conversation. Such accommodation, or entrainment, reveals itself in many modalities including speech: interlocutors are found to entrain in intensity, fundamental frequency, tempo and other acoustic features. This paper presents data on speech entrainment in Russian using the standard measures for speech entrainment: proximity, convergence and synchrony. The research uses 49 dialogues from the SibLing speech corpus where speakers played a card-matching game. The list of acoustic features includes various measures of pitch, energy, spectral slope, HNR, jitter, and shimmer. The results for Russian are compared with those published previously for other languages.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of Interspeech 2020
Pages4148-4152
Number of pages5
Volume2020-October
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
ISSN (Print)2308-457X

    Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Modelling and Simulation

    Research areas

  • Card-matching game, Dialogue, Phonetics, Russian, Speech entrainment

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