As one of the most specific, yet most diverse of human behaviors, language is shaped by
both genomic and extra-genomic evolution. Sharing methods and models between these …

Phonetics is the scientific field concerned with the study of how speech is produced, heard,
and perceived. It abounds with data, such as acoustic speech recordings, neuroimaging …

Speech datasets are crucial for training Speech Language Technologies (SLT); however,
the lack of diversity of the underlying training data can lead to serious limitations in building …

2. RESULTS 2.1. EFFECTS OF DEVICE. Here we present the full results for the effect of
each device on the acoustic measurements. All statistical results are from mixed effects …

Speech consists of a continuous stream of acoustic signals, yet humans can segment words
and other constituents from each other with astonishing precision. The acoustic properties …

While there exist scores of natural languages, each with its unique features and
idiosyncrasies, they all share a unifying theme: enabling human communication. We may …

Languages are known to describe the world in diverse ways. Across lexicons, diversity is
pervasive, appearing through phenomena such as lexical gaps and untranslatability …

Cross-linguistic phonetic analysis has long been limited by data scarcity and insufficient
computational resources. In the past few years, the availability of large-scale cross-linguistic …

Phonetic realization is highly variable and highly structured within and across talkers. We
examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space of related speech sounds …

This paper describes a method to enrich lexical resources with content relating to linguistic
diversity, based on knowledge from the field of lexical typology. We capture the …