Publications

Cohn, M., Sangani, R. B., Bandodkar, G., Predeck, K., Zellou, G. (in progress). Entrainment toward Human and Text-to-Speech Voices Producing Expressiveness:  A Comparison of Feature Approaches, Listener Ratings, and Word Embeddings. Alignment toward TTS and human voices. 

Block, A., Predeck, K., Frank, M., Arnett, C. (in progress). Between phonetic variation and phonological inventory: The perception of the /e:/-/ɛ:/ merger in German.  Interfaces of Phonetics, Book Chapter.

Barreda, S., Predeck, K.  (2023). "Inaccurate But Predictable: Vocal-Tract Length Estimation and Gender Stereotypes in Height Perception".  Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4503800 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4503800

Predeck, K., Block, A., Arnett, C. (2021). "“Problematic phonemes” and German/ɛ:/ An acoustic analysis." Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6.1: 280-287.

Cohn, M., Predeck, K., Sarian, M., & Zellou, G. (2021). Prosodic alignment toward emotionally expressive speech: Comparing human and Alexa model talkers. Speech Communication. 

Predeck, K., Tillema, A., Kazem, H., Zinn, H. (2021): If these buildings could talk. A podcast. National Humanities Center Podcasting Institute. (https://microsite-nhc-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/media/courseware/relatedresource/file/NHC_Jan2021_Cohort10_podcast_m98Ud7B.mp3)

Cohn, M., Sarian, M., Predeck, K., Zellou, G. (2020). Individual variation in language attitudes toward voice-AI: The role of listeners’ autistic-like traits. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.

Cohn, M., Raveh, E., Predeck, K., Gessinger, I., Möbius, B., Zellou, G. (2020). Differences in Gradient Emotion Perception: Human vs. Alexa Voices. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.

Arnett, C., Predeck K., Neumann, D. (2020). Recalling Negative Events of Loneliness: Implicit and Explicit Emotional Experiences of Social Exclusion and Social Avoidance. (under review) 

Kwon, N., Kim, S., Predeck, K., Adams, J., O'Connell, H. (2020). Depression severity detection using read speech with a divide-and-conquer approach. (in progress) 

Predeck, K., Kim, S., Kwon, N. (2020). Discriminating depression severity using acoustic features of vowels. (in progress)