Do men and women communicate differently with voice-AI systems? Gender also has been shown to influence listeners’ assessment of the persuasiveness, attractiveness, and group membership of the speaker ( Oksenberg et al., 1986 DePaulo, 1992 Babel, 2012). Gender is an indexical variable in human speech that has been found to shape the communicative behavior of interacting speakers ( Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, 1992). Also, many voice-AI systems display an apparent gender. In some ways, these systems exhibit more human-like qualities: conveyed by their names (e.g., “Alexa”), speech patterns, and personas. Across the world, millions of voice-AI devices are being used in people’s homes ( Ammari et al., 2019) and almost half of Americans report using a digital assistant ( Olmstead, 2017). Speech is now a common mode for interfacing with technology people of all ages regularly talk to voice-activated artificially intelligent (voice-AI) devices, such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa ( Bentley et al., 2018). Taken together, these results suggest a complex interplay of social dynamics in alignment, which can inform models of speech production both in human-human and human-device interaction. Additionally, there were other gender-mediated differences observed, all of which interacted with model talker category (voice-AI vs. Results reveal that older and younger adults display distinct patterns of alignment based on humanness and gender of the human model talkers: older adults displayed greater alignment toward the female human and device voices, while younger adults aligned to a greater extent toward the male human voice. Degree of alignment was assessed holistically via a perceptual ratings AXB task by a separate group of listeners. younger adults, 18–39 years old) and gender (female and male) on degree of speech alignment during shadowing of (female and male) human and voice-AI (Apple’s Siri) productions. This study examines participants’ age (older adults, 53–81 years old vs. Nowadays, people of all ages are speaking with voice-activated, artificially-intelligent (voice-AI) digital assistants through phones or smart speakers. Speech alignment is where talkers subconsciously adopt the speech and language patterns of their interlocutor.
Georgia Zellou*, Michelle Cohn and Bruno Ferenc Segedin
0 kommentar(er)
