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Does listeners' breathing change according to speaker and to loudness?

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In dialogue speaker's and listener's breathings synchronize at the time of turn-taking. This suggests a mutual adaptation of speaker's and listener's breathing, which could be a part of the interactive speaker/listener alignment process that occurs in communication. In this framework we investigated whether breathing variations during listening to speech depend on the speaker who produces the speech and/or on the loudness of the speech signal. We recorded acoustic and breathing signals from two native speakers of German (a male and a female) while they were reading short texts with either a normal or a loud acoustic level. The two readers had different breathing kinematics. Then, we monitored breathing for 26 native female speakers of German, while they were listening to the readers' speech signals played back via loudspeakers. They listened either to the male or to the female speaker, starting either with the normal (5 texts) or with the loud readings (5 texts). After listening to each text, listeners had to briefly summarize it. We analyzed breathing kinematics during listening according to the reader (male vs. female), to the loudness condition (normal vs. loud) and to the order (normal first vs. loud first). Altogether, these preliminary results show that listeners' breathing is sensitive to the reader and to the loudness of the reader's speech. This sensitivity could be a physiological reaction, as breathing is closely linked with heartbeats and emotional state. However, the changes in listeners' breathing could also be due to an adaptation to specific characteristics of the reader's voice and/or rhythms. It could also result from a speaker-listener's breathing coupling, as it has been observed for body movements in dialogue or for brain activity during listening.
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hal-00695754 , version 1 (09-05-2012)

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Amelie Rochet-Cappellan, Susanne Fuchs, Leonardo Lancia, Pascal Perrier. Does listeners' breathing change according to speaker and to loudness?. LISTA 2012 - The Listening Talker Workshop (LISTA 2012), May 2012, Édimbourg, United Kingdom. pp.80. ⟨hal-00695754⟩
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