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Crowdsourcing regional variation in speaking rate through the iOS app ‘Dialäkt Äpp’

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2014
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Leemann, A., Kolly, M.-J., & Dellwo, V. (2014, May 23). Crowdsourcing regional variation in speaking rate through the iOS app ‘Dialäkt Äpp.’ Speech Prosody 2014, Dublin.

Abstract

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It is a common stereotype in Switzerland that speakers from Bern speak slowly and speakers from Zurich speak quickly. Are these differences in perception at all mirrored in production? We present a new method of crowdsourcing speaking rate through a free of charge iOS application. Astonishingly, results indicate that the temporal structure of a few words alone – as spoken by a few hundred speakers – are sufficient to tell apart the two dialects in speaking rate. In line with previous literature, females articulate more slowly than mal

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Speech Prosody 2014

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Dublin

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2014-05-20

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2014-05-23

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English

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2015-02-10

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3 since deposited on 2015-02-10
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3 since deposited on 2015-02-10
Acq. date: 2025-11-08

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Leemann, A., Kolly, M.-J., & Dellwo, V. (2014, May 23). Crowdsourcing regional variation in speaking rate through the iOS app ‘Dialäkt Äpp.’ Speech Prosody 2014, Dublin.

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