ART: The Alternating Reading Task Corpus for Speech Entrainment and Imitation
This provides a resource for researchers in speech communication to study entrainment, but it is incremental as it focuses on data collection rather than new methods.
The authors introduced the Alternating Reading Task (ART) Corpus, a dataset for studying speech entrainment and imitation, featuring controlled conditions and multiple accents to systematically investigate these behaviors in a less-spontaneous setting.
We introduce the Alternating Reading Task (ART) Corpus, a collection of dyadic sentence reading for studying the entrainment and imitation behaviour in speech communication. The ART corpus features three experimental conditions - solo reading, alternating reading, and deliberate imitation - as well as three sub-corpora encompassing French-, Italian-, and Slovak-accented English. This design allows systematic investigation of speech entrainment in a controlled and less-spontaneous setting. Alongside detailed transcriptions, it includes English proficiency scores, demographics, and in-experiment questionnaires for probing linguistic, personal and interpersonal influences on entrainment. Our presentation covers its design, collection, annotation processes, initial analysis, and future research prospects.