Speech and language differences have long been described as important characteristics of
autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Linguistic abnormalities range from prosodic differences in …

This study investigates interpersonal processes underlying dialog by comparing two
approaches, interactive alignment and interpersonal synergy, and assesses how they …

Purpose: This study aims to further our understanding of prosodic entrainment and its
different subtypes by analyzing a single corpus of conversations with 12 different methods …

During an interaction people are known to mutually adapt. Phonetic adaptation has been
studied notably for prosodic parameters such as loudness, speech rate or fundamental …

The language models (LMs) used in speech recognition to predict the next word (given the
context) often rely on too short context, which leads to recognition errors. In theory, using …

We introduce the Alternating Reading Task (ART) Corpus, a collection of dyadic sentence
reading for studying the entrainment and imitation behaviour in speech communication. The …

During conversational interactions such as tutoring, instruction-giving tasks, verbal
negotiations, or just talking with friends, interlocutors' behaviors experience a series of …

Entrainment is the tendency of people to behave similarly during an interaction. It occurs on
different levels of behaviour, including speech, and has been associated with pro-social …

In this paper, we investigate prosodic alignment in task-based conversations. We use the
HCRC Map Task Corpus and investigate how familiarity affects prosodic alignment and how …

Interlocutors are known to mutually adapt during conversation. Recent studies have
questioned the adaptation of phonological representations and kinematics of phonetic …