Speech Rate

Syllable rate drives rate normalization, but is not the only factor
Speech is perceived relative to the speech rate in the context. It is unclear, however, what information listeners use to compute …
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Encoding speechrate in challenging listening conditions: white noise and reverberation
Temporal contrasts in speech are perceived relative to the speech rate of the surrounding context. That is, following a fast context …
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Control of speaking rate is achieved by switching between qualitatively distinct cognitive ‘gaits’: Evidence from simulation
That speakers can vary their speaking rate is evident, but how they accomplish this has hardly been studied. Consider this analogy: …
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How visual cues to speech rate influence speech perception
Spoken words are highly variable and therefore listeners interpret speech sounds relative to the surrounding acoustic context, such as …
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How the tracking of habitual rate influences speech perception
Listeners are known to track statistical regularities in speech. Yet, which temporal cues are encoded is unclear. This study tested …
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Listeners normalize speech for contextual speech rate even without an explicit recognition task
Speech can be produced at different rates. Listeners take this rate variation into account by normalizing vowel duration for contextual …
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Entrained theta oscillations guide perception of subsequent speech: Behavioral evidence from rate normalization
This psychoacoustic study provides behavioural evidence that neural entrainment in the theta range (3–9 Hz) causally shapes speech …
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Listening to yourself is special: Evidence from global speech rate tracking
Listeners are known to use adjacent contextual speech rate in processing temporally ambiguous speech sounds. For instance, an ambiguous …
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Accounting for rate-dependent category boundary shifts in speech perception
The perception of temporal contrasts in speech is known to be influenced by the speech rate in the surrounding context. This …
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An entrained rhythm’s frequency, not phase, influences temporal sampling of speech
Brain oscillations have been shown to track the slow amplitude fluctuations in speech during comprehension. Moreover, there is evidence …
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