Paper ID: 2404.02710

ART: The Alternating Reading Task Corpus for Speech Entrainment and Imitation

Zheng Yuan, Dorina de Jong, Štefan Beňuš, Noël Nguyen, Ruitao Feng, Róbert Sabo, Luciano Fadiga, Alessandro D`Ausilio

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.

Submitted: Apr 3, 2024