Face-to-face speech data collection has been next to impossible globally as a result of the
COVID-19 restrictions. To address this problem, simultaneous recordings of three repetitions …

This study explores the effects of embodied prosodic training on the production of non-native
French front rounded vowels (ie/y, ø, œ/) and the overall pronunciation proficiency. Fifty …

Abstract The Michigan Diaries (MI Diaries) project was developed from late March to early
April of 2020, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. MI Diaries is a longitudinal …

We investigate the impact of medium of communication (in-person versus video) on
intraspeaker variation in conversation—a process we refer to as medium-shifting. To …

Background: Publicly available speech corpora facilitate reproducible research by providing
open-access data for participants who have consented/assented to data sharing among …

This study examines the plasticity of native language intonation in English-Austrian German
sequential bilinguals who have migrated to Austria in adulthood by comparing it to that of …

Introduction: Smart devices are widely available and capable of quickly recording and
uploading speech segments for health-related analysis. The switch from laboratory …

Iranian Armenian is the variety of spoken Armenian that was developed by Armenians in
Tehran, Iran over the last few centuries. It has a substantial community of speakers in …

In the 18 months that have passed since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic,
linguists around the world have had to grapple with the practical and ethical issues that …

Forced alignment is a speech technique that can automatically align audio files with
transcripts. With the help of forced alignment tools, annotating audio files and creating …