Voices have unique acoustic signatures, contributing to the acoustic variability listeners must
contend with in perceiving speech, and it has long been proposed that listeners normalize …

Within tone languages that use pitch variations to contrast meaning, large variability exists in
the pitches produced by different speakers. Context-dependent perception may help to …

Though listeners readily recognize speech from a variety of talkers, accommodating talker
variability comes at a cost: Myriad studies have shown that listeners are slower to recognize …

Speech training paradigms aim to maximise learning outcomes by manipulating external
factors such as talker variability. However, not all individuals may benefit from such …

Bilinguals perceptually accommodate speech variation across languages, but to what extent
this flexibility depends on bilingual experience is uncertain. One account suggests that …

Previous research has shown that familiarity with a talker's voice can improve linguistic
processing (herein,“Familiar Talker Advantage”), but this benefit is constrained by the …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to discuss the impact of COVID-19 mitigation
strategies on face-to-face communication. The article covers three main areas: the effect of …

We revisit an article,“Perception of the Speech Code”(PSC), published in this journal 50
years ago (Liberman, Cooper, Shankweiler, & Studdert-Kennedy, 1967) and address one of …

Phonetic variability across talkers imposes additional processing costs during speech
perception, evident in performance decrements when listening to speech from multiple …

Speech signals contain information of both linguistic content and a talker's voice.
Conventionally, linguistic and talker processing are thought to be mediated by distinct neural …