Durational cues to word boundaries in clear speech
Speech Communication
Speech Communication - Special issue on phonetics and phonology of speaking styles: reduction and elaboration in speech communication
Formant-based processing for hearing aids
Speech Communication - Speech science and technology: a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference in Speech Science and Technology (SST-92)
A note on the acoustic-phonetic characteristics of inadvertently clear speech
Speech Communication
Speech Communication - Special issue on speech under stress
Intelligibility of normal speech I: global and fine-grained acoustic-phonetic talker characteristics
Speech Communication - Special issue on acoustic echo control and speech enhancement techniques
Loudmouth:: modifying text-to-speech synthesis in noise
Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Do you speak E-NG-L-I-SH? A comparison of foreigner- and infant-directed speech
Speech Communication
Modelling speaker intelligibility in noise
Speech Communication
The contribution of consonants versus vowels to word recognition in fluent speech
ICASSP '96 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1996. on Conference Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference - Volume 02
Learning to adapt to unknown users: referring expression generation in spoken dialogue systems
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Adaptive information presentation for spoken dialogue systems: evaluation with human subjects
ENLG '11 Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
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Speech output technology is finding widespread application, including in scenarios where intelligibility might be compromised - at least for some listeners - by adverse conditions. Unlike most current algorithms, talkers continually adapt their speech patterns as a response to the immediate context of spoken communication, where the type of interlocutor and the environment are the dominant situational factors influencing speech production. Observations of talker behaviour can motivate the design of more robust speech output algorithms. Starting with a listener-oriented categorisation of possible goals for speech modification, this review article summarises the extensive set of behavioural findings related to human speech modification, identifies which factors appear to be beneficial, and goes on to examine previous computational attempts to improve intelligibility in noise. The review concludes by tabulating 46 speech modifications, many of which have yet to be perceptually or algorithmically evaluated. Consequently, the review provides a roadmap for future work in improving the robustness of speech output.