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Phonetic units which constitute natural continuous speech display immense variation due to a substantial number of factors. Consequently, one of the key questions for speech scientists concerns the translation of individual bundles of acoustic features into conventional linguistic meanings or types. Although the problem of normalization of acoustic data is common to many areas of speech science, its solutions depend on particular applicational objectives. An overview of the development in the field of normalization is presented from the perspective of the phonetic understanding of speech communication. The explanatory value of individual methodological outcomes is discussed. Both indexical (related to the speaker identity) and contextual (related to the linguistic form) factors are considered and several normalization algorithms are compared with each other. Recent findings indicate that human listeners exploit not only visual cues but also their cumulated social experience when processing sounds of speech.
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Volín, J. (2009). Normalization of the Vocalic Space. In: Esposito, A., Vích, R. (eds) Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5641. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03320-9_19
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