Accent-independent adaptation to foreign accented speech
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Accent-independent adaptation to foreign accented speech.
Foreign-accented speech can be difficult to understand but listeners can adapt to novel talkers and accents with appropriate experience. Previous studies have demonstrated talker-independent but accent-dependent learning after training on multiple talkers from a single language background. Here, listeners instead were exposed to talkers from five language backgrounds during training. After trai...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.4789864