Lombard Effect in Polish Speech and its Comparison in English Speech

The first extensive investigation on the Lombard effect with Polish speech has been performed. Characteristic parameters of Lombard speech were measured: intensity, fundamental frequency, spectral tilt, duration of words, duration of pauses and duration of vowels. The effect was investigated in a ta...

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Main Authors: Piotr KLECZKOWSKI, Agnieszka ŻAK, Aleksandra KRÓL-NOWAK
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Published: Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences 2017-11-01
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Online Access:https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/2076
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description The first extensive investigation on the Lombard effect with Polish speech has been performed. Characteristic parameters of Lombard speech were measured: intensity, fundamental frequency, spectral tilt, duration of words, duration of pauses and duration of vowels. The effect was investigated in a task involving real communication – solving a Sudoku puzzle. The speakers produced speech in quiet and in three different backgrounds: competing speech, speech-shaped noise and speech-modulated noise. The experimental conditions were held as close as possible to those in the study by Cooke and Lu (2010) so that conclusions could be drawn whether differences between the Lombard effect in Polish speech and English speech existed. Most of the findings on the Lombard effect known from the literature have been confirmed with Polish speech. In three parameters, Polish speakers were more sensitive to modulated backgrounds while English speakers were more sensitive to a stationary background. In both languages, the modulated backgrounds induced speakers to extend pauses in the communication tasks.
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spelling doaj-art-31b4373404bf40fa9201ff2d3ff70e392025-08-20T02:53:12ZengInstitute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of SciencesArchives of Acoustics0137-50752300-262X2017-11-0142410.1515/aoa-2017-0060Lombard Effect in Polish Speech and its Comparison in English SpeechPiotr KLECZKOWSKI0Agnieszka ŻAK1Aleksandra KRÓL-NOWAK2AGH University of Science and TechnologyAGH University of Science and TechnologyAGH University of Science and TechnologyThe first extensive investigation on the Lombard effect with Polish speech has been performed. Characteristic parameters of Lombard speech were measured: intensity, fundamental frequency, spectral tilt, duration of words, duration of pauses and duration of vowels. The effect was investigated in a task involving real communication – solving a Sudoku puzzle. The speakers produced speech in quiet and in three different backgrounds: competing speech, speech-shaped noise and speech-modulated noise. The experimental conditions were held as close as possible to those in the study by Cooke and Lu (2010) so that conclusions could be drawn whether differences between the Lombard effect in Polish speech and English speech existed. Most of the findings on the Lombard effect known from the literature have been confirmed with Polish speech. In three parameters, Polish speakers were more sensitive to modulated backgrounds while English speakers were more sensitive to a stationary background. In both languages, the modulated backgrounds induced speakers to extend pauses in the communication tasks.https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/2076Lombard effectspeech productionPolish speechspeech levelfundamental frequency of speechspectral tilt
spellingShingle Piotr KLECZKOWSKI
Agnieszka ŻAK
Aleksandra KRÓL-NOWAK
Lombard Effect in Polish Speech and its Comparison in English Speech
Archives of Acoustics
Lombard effect
speech production
Polish speech
speech level
fundamental frequency of speech
spectral tilt
title Lombard Effect in Polish Speech and its Comparison in English Speech
title_full Lombard Effect in Polish Speech and its Comparison in English Speech
title_fullStr Lombard Effect in Polish Speech and its Comparison in English Speech
title_full_unstemmed Lombard Effect in Polish Speech and its Comparison in English Speech
title_short Lombard Effect in Polish Speech and its Comparison in English Speech
title_sort lombard effect in polish speech and its comparison in english speech
topic Lombard effect
speech production
Polish speech
speech level
fundamental frequency of speech
spectral tilt
url https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/2076
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