Human voices are extremely variable: The same person can sound very different depending
on whether they are speaking, laughing, shouting or whispering. In order to successfully …

In most of the world, people have regular exposure to multiple accents. Therefore, learning
to quickly process accented speech is a prerequisite to successful communication. In this …

The ability to recognize people by their voice is an important social behavior. Individuals
differ in how they pronounce words, and listeners may take advantage of language-specific …

A visual fixation study tested whether 7‐month‐olds can discriminate between different
talkers. The infants were first habituated to talkers producing sentences in either a familiar or …

The influence of language familiarity upon speaker identification is well established, to such
an extent that it has been argued that “Human voice recognition depends on language …

Background: Many audiologists have observed a situation where a patient appears to
understand something spoken by his or her spouse or a close friend but not the same …

Speech carries both linguistic content–phonemes, words, sentences–and talker information,
sometimes called 'indexical information'. While talker variability materially affects language …

[Frontiers in Bioscience S6, 92-109, January 1, 2014] 92 How do we recognise who is
speaking? Samuel R. Mathias1,2, Katharina vo Page 1 [Frontiers in Bioscience S6, 92-109 …

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 …

Recent work demonstrates that listeners utilize talker-specific information in the speech
signal to inform real-time language processing. However, there are multiple representational …