[2023]

Werner, R. 2023. The phonetics of speech breathing: pauses, physiology, acoustics, and perception. Ph.D. thesis, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.

Elmers, M. and Székely, É. 2023. The impact of pause-internal phonetic particles on recall in synthesized lectures. Proc. 12th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW '23), Grenoble, August 26-28, pp. 204-210. [PDF] [.bib] [Poster] [Data] [Demo]

Elmers, M., O'Mahony, J., and Székely, É. 2023. Synthesis after a couple PINTs: Investigating the role of pause-internal phonetic particles in speech synthesis and perception. Interspeech 2023, Dublin, August 20-24, pp. 4843-4847. [PDF] [.bib] [Poster] [Data] [Demo]

Yuen, I., Ibrahim, O., Andreeva, B., and Möbius, B. 2023. Non-uniform cue-trading: Differential effects of surprisal on pause usage and pause duration in German. Proc. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS '23), Prague, August 7-11, pp. 619-623. [PDF] [.bib]

Muhlack, B. 2023. Filler particles in English and Spanish L1 and L2 speech. Proc. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS '23), Prague, August 7-11, pp. 2418-2422. [PDF] [.bib]

Elmers, M. 2023. Pause particles influencing recollection in lectures. Proc. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS '23), Prague, August 7-11, pp. 37-41. [PDF] [.bib] [Poster] [Data]

Fuchs, S., Koenig, L., and Werner, R. 2023. Respiratory and supralaryngeal effects on speech breathing noise across loudness conditions and speaking tasks. Proc. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS '23), Prague, August 7-11, pp. 1127-1131. [PDF] [.bib]

Muhlack, B., Trouvain, J., and Jessen, M. 2023. Distributional and acoustic characteristics of filler particles in German with consideration of forensic-phonetic aspects. Languages 8(2), 100. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8020100. [PDF] [.bib]

Trouvain, J. & Werner, R. 2023. Muster der Sprechatmung in verschiedenen Sprechstilen – eine Pilotstudie. Proc. 34th Conference Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV '23), München, March 1-3, pp. 95-102. [PDF] [.bib]

MacIntyre, A.D. & Werner, R. 2023. An Automatic Method for Speech Breathing Annotation. Proc. 34th Conference Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV '23), München, March 1-3, pp. 103-110. [PDF] [.bib]

[2022]

Werner, R., Trouvain, J., and Möbius, B. 2022. Speaker discrimination and classification in breath noises by human listeners. Oral presentation, 18th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '22), Bielefeld, October 06-07. [Abstract] [Stimuli]

Muhlack, B., Trouvain, J., and Jessen, M. 2022. Acoustic characteristics of filler particles in German. Poster presentation, 18th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '22), Bielefeld, October 06-07. [Abstract] [Poster]

Elmers, M. & Trouvain, J. 2022. Pause-internal particles in university lectures. Poster presentation, 18th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '22), Bielefeld, October 06-07. [Abstract] [Poster]

Werner, R., Fuchs, S., Trouvain, J., Kürbis, S., Möbius. B., and Birkholz P. 2022. Comparison of acoustic parameters of inhalations vs. exhalations with 3D-printed vocal tract models. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, August 24-27. [Abstract] [Poster]

Werner, R., Trouvain, J., and Möbius, B. 2022. Speaker discrimination and classification in breath noises by human listeners. Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA '22), Prague, July 10-13. [Poster] [Stimuli]

Muhlack, B., Trouvain, J., and Jessen, M. 2022. Acoustic characteristics of filler particles in German. Proc. 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA '22), Prague, July 10-13. [Poster]

Werner, R., Trouvain, J., and Möbius, B. 2022. Optionality and variability of speech pauses in read speech across languages and rates. Proc. Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, May 23-26, pp. 312-316. [PDF] [.bib] [Poster]

Werner, R., Trouvain, J., Muhlack, B., and Möbius, B. 2022. Perceptual categorization of breath noises in speech pauses. Proc. 33rd Conference Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV '22), Sonderborg, March 2-4, pp. 139-146. [PDF] [.bib] [Poster] [Stimuli]

Elmers, M. 2022. Comparing detection methods for pause-internal particles. Proc. 33rd Conference Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV '22), Sonderborg, March 2-4, pp. 204-211. [PDF] [.bib] [Slides]

Trouvain, J. & Werner, R. 2022. A phonetic view on annotating speech pauses and pause-internal phonetic particles. In: Schwarze, C. & Grawunder, S. (eds): Transkription und Annotation gesprochener Sprache und multimodaler Interaktion. Tübingen: Narr, pp. 55-73. [PDF of the preprint version]

[2021]

Werner, R., Trouvain, J., Muhlack, B., and Möbius, B. 2021. Breath noise perception – a pilot study on airway usage. Poster presentation, 17th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '21), Frankfurt, September 29-30. [Abstract] [Poster]

Muhlack, B., and Trouvain, J. 2021. Annotationsschema für Häsitationspartikeln im phonetischen Kontext. Oral presentation, 17th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '21), Frankfurt, September 29-30. [Abstract] [Slides]

Elmers, M. 2021. Corpus generation for research in pause-internal phonetic particles. Oral presentation, 17th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '21), Frankfurt, September 29-30. [Abstract] [Slides]

Werner, R., Fuchs, S., Trouvain, J., and Möbius, B. 2021. Inhalations in speech: acoustic and physiological characteristics. Interspeech 2021, Aug 30 - Sept 03, pp. 3186-3190. [PDF] [.bib]

Muhlack, B., Elmers, M., Drenhaus, H., Trouvain, J., Van Os, M., Werner, R., Ryzhova, M., and Möbius, B. 2021. Revisiting recall effects of filler particles in German and English. Interspeech 2021, Aug 30 - Sept 03, pp. 3979-3983. [PDF] [.bib] [Stimuli]

Elmers, M., Werner, R., Muhlack, B., Möbius, B., and Trouvain, J. 2021. Take a breath: Respiratory sounds improve recollection in synthetic speech. Interspeech 2021, Aug 30 - Sept 03, 3196-3200. [PDF] [.bib] [Stimuli]

Werner, R., Trouvain, J., Fuchs, S., and Möbius, B. 2021. Exploring the presence and absence of inhalation noises when speaking and when listening. Proc. 12th International Speech Production Seminar (ISSP 2020), New Haven, CT: Haskins Press, pp. 214-217. [PDF] [Poster]

Trouvain, J., and Werner, R. 2021. Human pause detection in spontaneous speech in an online experiment. Proc. 32nd Conference Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV '21), Berlin, March 3-5, pp. 59-66. [PDF] [.bib] [Poster]

Elmers, M., Werner, R., Muhlack, B., Möbius, B., and Trouvain, J. 2021. Evaluating the effect of pauses on number recollection in synthesized speech. Proc. 32nd Conference Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV '21), Berlin, March 3-5, pp. 289-295. [PDF] [.bib] [Slides]

[2020]

Trouvain, J. and Werner, R. 2020. Comparing annotations of non-verbal vocalisations in speech corpora. Poster presentation, Laughter Workshop 2020, Bielefeld, October 5, pp. 69-72. [Short Paper] [Poster]

Muhlack, B. 2020. L1 and L2 production of non-lexical hesitation particles of German and English native speakers. Poster presentation, Laughter Workshop 2020, Bielefeld, October 5, pp. 44-47. [Short Paper] [Poster]

Muhlack, B. 2020. The vowel quality of non-lexical hesitation particles in German and English L1 and L2 speech. Poster presentation, 16th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '20), Trier, September 10-11. [Abstract] [Poster]

Elmers, M., Muhlack, B., Werner, R., Trouvain, J., and Möbius, B. 2020. Pause-internal phonetic particles in speech communication. Poster presentation, 16th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '20), Trier, September 10-11. [Abstract] [Poster]

Trouvain, J., Werner, R., and Möbius, B. 2020. An acoustic analysis of inbreath noises in read and spontaneous speech. Speech Prosody, Tokyo, pp. 789-793. [PDF] [.bib]

Werner, R., Trouvain, J., and Möbius, B. 2020. Ein sprachübergreifender Vergleich des Pausenverhaltens natürlicher Sprecher in verschiedenen Sprechtempi mit TTS-Systemen. Proc. 31th Conference Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV '20), Magdeburg, pp. 101-108. [PDF] [.bib]

[2019]

Trouvain, J., Möbius, B., and Werner, R. 2019. On acoustic features of inhalation noises in read and spontaneous speech. 1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS), Sønderborg, December 1-3. [Abstract]