The impact of pause-internal phonetic particles on recall in synthesized lectures

This repository contains the data and code for "The impact of pause-internal phonetic particles on recall in synthesized lectures" by Mikey Elmers and Éva Székely for the 12th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW ’23), Grenoble, Aug 26-28. This study investigated the effect of pause-internal phonetic particles (PINTs) on recall for native and non-native listeners of English in a listener experiment with synthesized material that simulated a university lecture.

A demo of the text-to-speech stimuli can be found here.

The following PINTs are investigated:

• silence (sil)
• inhalation noise (in)
• exhalation noise (ex)
• filler particles (uh/um)
• tongue click (cl)

Table Of Contents

• Instructions
• Directory information
  • data
  • docs
  • output
  • scripts
• Citation
• Issues/comments/suggestions
• License
• References

Instructions

1. Clone repository.

   git clone https://github.com/MikeyElmers/paper_ssw23.git
   cd paper_ssw23/

2. Rmarkdown documents and the sessionInfo are located in output/.

Directory Information

data

• Raw data
• Final data

docs

• elmers_ssw23_paper.pdf: SSW '23 paper submission
• elmers_ssw23_poster.pdf: SSW '23 poster submission

output

• 02_analysis.html: Output of analysis.Rmd file
• sessionInfo.txt: R session info
• plot_boxplot_schematic.png: Duration schematic for the three conditions

scripts

• 00_renvRestore.R: Restores project dependencies
• 01_clean.R: Cleans and exports final data
• 02_analysis.Rmd: Descriptive and inferential data analysis

Citation

If you use this data or code for you work, please cite as:

@inproceedings{elmers23ssw,
  author={Mikey Elmers and \'{E}va Sz\'{e}kely},
  title={{The Impact of Pause-Internal Phonetic Particles on Recall in Synthesized Lectures}},
  year=2023,
  booktitle={Proc. 12th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW2023)},
  pages={204--210},
  doi={10.21437/SSW.2023-32}
}

Issues/Comments/Suggestions

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License

This code is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE.md

References

Langdon Hammer, Modern Poetry (Yale University: Open Yale Couses), http://oyc.yale.edu (Accessed June 27, 2022). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA