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Rachel M Miller1, Kauyumari Sanchez, Lawrence D Rosenblum

  • 1University of California, Riverside, California, USA.

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Speech alignment, the unconscious imitation of speaking styles, can occur through visual cues like lipreading. Studies show shadowed speech is more similar to a model's, even across visual and audio modalities.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech Perception
  • Human Communication

Background:

  • Speech alignment describes the unconscious imitation of interlocutors' speaking styles.
  • This phenomenon is well-documented in auditory shadowing tasks.
  • Previous research has primarily focused on auditory modality for speech alignment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if speech alignment can be induced via visual (lip-read) speech.
  • To determine if alignment effects persist across different sensory modalities (visual to auditory).
  • To assess human raters' ability to perceive cross-modal speech alignment.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Participants lip-read and shadowed silent utterances from a model, comparing shadowed vs. non-shadowed (read) utterances.
  • Experiment 2: Raters judged the similarity between a model's silent visual utterances and participants' audio utterances (shadowed vs. read).

Main Results:

  • Shadowed utterances were acoustically more similar to the model's utterances than non-shadowed read utterances.
  • Raters perceived greater similarity between a model's visual speech and participants' shadowed audio speech compared to read speech.
  • These findings indicate that speech alignment can be influenced by visual speech input and perceived across modalities.

Conclusions:

  • Speech alignment is not limited to auditory input and can be initiated through visual speech cues.
  • Cross-modal similarity in speech alignment is detectable by human listeners.
  • This research expands our understanding of the mechanisms underlying speech imitation and social coordination in communication.