HLL Linguistics students publish co-authored paper

Julian Vargo, Niko Schwarz, and Verónica Grajeda (HLL Linguistics) recently published a socioprosodic research study in Phonetica. The study is a collaborative investigation with peers in CS and Linguistics, titled "Identity and personality in the social perception of synthesized-voices: perceptions of OpenAI's text-to-speech technology." Spoiler: Human listeners readily ascribe real-world social characteristics to synthesized voices, demonstrating the importance of human experience in human-computer interaction and the deep entrenchment of social judgment in all kinds of communication, even with non-human actors.