Two talkers' productions of the same phoneme may be quite different acoustically, whereas
their productions of different speech sounds may be virtually identical. Despite this lack of …

Talkers differ in the shape and length of their vocal tracts, and in a number of other
characteristics that affect speech production. As a result, two different talkers may produce …

A fundamental problem in speech perception is how (or whether) listeners accommodate
variability in the way talkers produce speech. One view of the way listeners cope with this …

A fundamental issue for speech perception is one that is common to all psychological
accounts of perception, perceptual constancy. Speech perception is complicated because a …

Recent findings in the domains of word and talker recognition reveal that listeners use
previous experience with an individual talker's voice to facilitate subsequent perceptual …

Differences between talkers result in increased variability in the mapping between acoustic
patterns and linguistic categories. Typically theories of talker normalization have been …

The acoustic structure of the speech signal is extremely variable due to a variety of
contextual factors, including talker characteristics and speaking rate. To account for the …

The perceptual consequences of trial‐to‐trial changes in the voice of the talker on spoken
word recognition were examined. The results from a series of experiments using perceptual …

Speech is a complex auditory signal that contains multiple layers of linguistic and non‐
linguistic structure. Perceivers are exquisitely sensitive to this layered structure and extract …

The effect of talker and token variability on speech perception has engendered a great deal
of research. However, most of this research has compared listener performance in multiple …