Individual Differences in Speech Production and Perception

Inter-individual variation in speech is a topic of increasing interest both in human sciences and speech technology. It can yield important insights into biological, cognitive, communicative, and social aspects of language. Written by specialists in psycholinguistics, phonetics, speech development, speech perception and speech technology, this volume presents experimental and modeling studies that provide the reader with a deep understanding of interspeaker variability and its role in speech processing, speech development, and interspeaker interactions. It discusses how theoretical models take into account individual behavior, explains why interspeaker variability enriches speech communication, and summarizes the limitations of the use of speaker information in forensics.

Susanne Fuchs works at ZAS Berlin and is an expert in speech production.
Daniel Pape works at the University of Aveiro. He is an expert in speech perception.
Caterina Petrone is a CNRS researcher at the LPL in Aix-en-Provence and an expert in prosody.
Pascal Perrier is a professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and an expert in speech production models.