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In everyday life, people listen to speech under a wide range of conditions that are “non-optimal” relative to the controlled conditions in laboratory experiments. Classical research methods can only deal with the effects of individual “adverse” conditions. This has contributed to the fragmentation of speech communication research in numerous sub-disciplines that have little interaction. While each ...

Speech remains the method of choice for human communication, and as a consequence live, recorded and synthetic speech is increasingly used to deliver information. However, current speech output technologies lack an essential element of human interaction, namely the ability to listen while talking. Talkers react and adapt to both the environment and the listener, and make modifications to their spe ...