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    "pk": 30174,
    "title": "Top-down effect of apparent humanness on vocal alignment toward human anddevice interlocutors",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Humans are now regularly speaking to voice-activatedartificially intelligent (voice-AI) assistants. Yet, ourunderstanding of the cognitive mechanisms at play duringspeech interactions with a voice-AI, relative to a real human,interlocutor is an understudied area of research. The presentstudy tests whether top-down guise of “apparent humanness”affects vocal alignment patterns to human and text-to-speech(TTS) voices. In a between-subjects design, participants heardeither 4 naturally-produced or 4 TTS voices. Apparenthumanness guise varied within-subject. Speaker guise wasmanipulated via a top-down label with images, either of twopictures of voice-AI systems (Amazon Echos) or two humantalkers. Vocal alignment in vowel duration revealed top-downeffects of apparent humanness guise: participants showedgreater alignment to TTS voices when presented with a deviceguise (“authentic guise”), but lower alignment in the twoinauthentic guises. Results suggest a dynamic interplay ofbottom-up and top-down factors in human and voice-AIinteraction.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "vocal alignment; apparent guise; voice-activatedartificially intelligent (voice-AI) systems; human-computerinteraction"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers accepted as Posters, appearing in proceedings only",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hk1q3q3",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Georgia",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zellou",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Davis",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michelle",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Cohn",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Davis",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}