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Contextual predictability effects on acoustic distinctiveness in read Polish speech
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5953-7310
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.
2025 (English)In: Interspeech 2025, International Speech Communication Association , 2025, p. 335-339Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper examines how contextual predictability (surprisal) influences acoustic features in Polish speech using the PRODIS dataset. The study analyses connected speech read from Wikipedia texts on history, politics, culture and science. Surprisal values are extracted from a GPT-2-like phoneme-based language model. Results show that high surprisal increases acoustic distinctiveness, such as longer segment duration and larger vowel space, while low surprisal reduces distinctiveness. We also find effects of text topic, lexical frequency, and lexical stress on surprisal. These findings highlight the complex interplay between predictability, discourse, and prosody in speech. The work contributes to understudied analyses on predictability and acoustics in Slavic languages.

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International Speech Communication Association , 2025. p. 335-339
Keywords [en]
Polish, prosody, speaking style, surprisal, vowel reduction
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Natural Language Processing Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-372792DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2256Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105020095744OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-372792DiVA, id: diva2:2014605
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26th Interspeech Conference 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Kingdom of the, August 17-21, 2025
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QC 20251118

Available from: 2025-11-18 Created: 2025-11-18 Last updated: 2025-11-18Bibliographically approved

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