Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

Over 200,000 synthesized words reveal the intricate relationship between articulatory gestures and acoustic landmarks in speech.

Gaussian soft labels boost landmark detection performance by 7% over traditional hard labels, revealing the importance of modeling annotation variability.

Turn-final words are not just longer; they provide a crucial prosodic cue for predicting conversational turns, localized mainly in the final syllable.