Open AccessVisual Influences on Interactive Speech Alignment
Author(s) -
James W. Dias,
Lawrence D. Rosenblum
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
perception
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1468-4233
pISSN - 0301-0066
DOI - 10.1068/p7071
Subject(s) - task (project management) , psychology , similarity (geometry) , unconscious mind , speech recognition , computer science , communication , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , management , psychoanalysis , economics
Speech alignment describes the unconscious tendency to produce speech that shares characteristics with perceived speech (eg Goldinger, 1998 Psychological Review 105 251-279). In the present study we evaluated whether seeing a talker enhances alignment over just hearing a talker. Pairs of participants performed an interactive search task which required them to repeatedly utter a series of keywords. Half of the pairs performed the task while hearing each other, while the other half could see and hear each other. Alignment was assessed by naive judges rating the similarity of interlocutors' keywords recorded before, during, and after the interactive task. Results showed that interlocutors aligned more when able to see one another suggesting that visual information enhances speech alignment.