A multimodal speech-production dataset with time-aligned articulography, EEG, audio, and vocal-tract anatomy www.nature.com/articles/s41... Simultaneous EMA, EEG & audio from 29 adult native speakers of German Hosted on SWISSUbase - login via www.clarin.eu/content/fede...

📚 Citation Classic "Echoes of echoes? An episodic theory of lexical access" S.D. Goldinger (1998) Citations: 3100+ Proposed that a speaker's specific voice details are stored with words, challenging abstract phonological representat... 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.105.2.251 #SpeechScience

Prior exposure to speech rapidly modulates cortical processing of high-level linguistic structure academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... Study manipulated prior knowledge to enhance the intelligibility of physically identical speech then tested neural tracking responses

Linguists should learn to love speech-based deep learning models www.cambridge.org/core/journal... "Once the bottleneck of text can be replaced...modelling more human-like linguistic processes..[& handle] the vast majority of local & regional language varieties that are rarely or never written down"

Ocular speech tracking persists in blindness, but its dynamics and oculo-cerebral connectivity depend on visual status www.eneuro.org/content/earl... "ocular speech tracking seems to respond selectively to acoustic features of speech, and does not require visual experience to develop"

Short-term audio-tactile training affects cortical auditory speech-envelope tracking for incongruent but not congruent stimuli www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "challenges prevailing assumptions...increased speech-envelope tracking accuracy...was not linked to enhanced speech intelligibility"

The extended language network: Language-responsive brain areas whose contributions to language remain to be discovered www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Language-selective areas around the temporal poles, the medial frontal cortex, the hippocampus, the cerebellum, among others, still <5% grey matter

Briefing Chat: What tickling a chimpanzee can tell us about the evolution of speech https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42373839/

Bilinguals’ and monolinguals’ use of gestures when telling a story: effects of proficiency and culture www.cambridge.org/core/service... Tested whether bilinguals produced more referential & beat gestures than monolinguals, especially in their second language

Gaze-Tracking-Based Tests for Autism in Children:A Diagnostic Test Accuracy Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... With PRISMA-DTA guidance 17 published studies 2015-2025 (n = 4,256) comparing gaze-tracking paradigms with standardized autism diagnoses were included

Pitch motor areas contribute to the perception of prosodic categories in speech https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.22.733802v1

Influence of Visual Context Stability on Word Learning in Fourteen- and Nineteen-Month-Old Children www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Compared word learning in French-learning fourteen- & nineteen-month-olds with visually distinct & identical object pictures in a fast mapping eye-tracking paradigm

Audiovisual speech perception in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children with and without Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... "Although SSD children show reduced accuracy in speech perception across sensory modalities, audiovisual speech integration appears preserved"

📚 Citation Classic "The TRACE Model of Speech Perception" McClelland & Elman (1986) Citations: 3200+ Interactive activation architecture for phoneme and word recognition. early tou computationa... 🔗 https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~gary/PAPER-SUGGESTIONS/McClelland-Elman-cogpsych-1986.pdf #SpeechScience

Lip-reading and eye-gaze discrimination are functionally lateralized across the left & right posterior superior temporal sulci academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... Results suggests that lip (left) & eye-gaze (right pSTS) discrimination are lateralized across the bilateral pSTS (why the emotional faces?)

Maternal voice contingency affects tactile habituation in full-term newborns www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Auditory input strongly engages newborns' attention and behaviour with temporally contingent maternal speech modulating newborns' engagement during tactile exploration 💬 👶 🤏

Dataset of audiovisual unscripted monologues with speech annotations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A publicly accessible multimodal dataset comprising audiovisual recordings of unscripted German monologues and a corresponding time-resolved linguistic speech annotation corpus

The neural basis of laughter www.cell.com/trends/neuro... Ho, ho, ho - had to be Sophie Scott (& Fausto Caruana) - another dual-system?

Focus is Not just on the Eyes-Constructing Dynamic Areas of Interest for Eye-Tracking link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Automated dynamic areas of interest pipeline for front-facing facial videos suitable for emotion recognition & language related research (speechreading) github.com/jkauramaki/d...

Individual differences in speech monitoring: Functional & structural correlates of delayed auditory feedback www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Delaying auditory feedback (DAF) disrupts impairs fluency > here a word production task with/out DAF & MRI>what brain structures link with a susceptibility index?

The visome: Using cognitive networks to examine lip-reading errors in English words pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art... How does the structure of the visome influences lipreading performance?

Dynamic neural oscillations underpin audiovisual gain from visual lip cues in speech noise www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Findings suggest visual lip information 1st facilitates early AV integration by modulating low-frequency neural oscillations then recruits sensorimotor networks for SPIN

🔬 Speech Science Sunday Linear Predictive Coding A thread 🧵

The cerebellar components of the human language network www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... 4 regions in right posterior cerebellum reliably respond to language; LangCereb3 is highly selective, other regions show mixed selectivity; all regions (especially LangCereb3) mirror the neocortical language network

📚 Citation Classic "Explaining phonetic variation: A sketch of the H&H theory" B. Lindblom (1990) Citations: 3400+ Hypo- and Hyper-articulation theory. Speakers dynamically adapt their articulatory effort based on... 🔗 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-2037-8_16 #SpeechScience

Audiomotor prediction errors drive speech adaptation even in the absence of overt movement journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Planned, but not executed, speech-> neat paradigm. Results suggest that prediction errors, rather than corrective motor commands, drive audiomotor adaptation in speech

Testing differential effects of periodicity and predictability in auditory rhythmic cueing of concurrent speech www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum... Results suggest entrainment benefits from rhythmic cues rely on top-down processing & are relatively muted when stimulus predictability is unknown

Prosody and predictability in co-speech gestures: Evidence from Igbo ‘gesture shift www.journal-labphon.org/article/id/1... Examines how prosody & predictability interact to shape the timing of co-speech gestures in Igbo, a Niger-Congo language.

In the 1960s researchers found speech sounds overlap - when saying 'key' your lips round for the vowel while still pronouncing the 'k'. This is why isolated phonemes don't exist in natural speech. 🔄 Sounds blend continuously #SpeechScience #Phonetics

Neural decoding of speech using deep neural ensembles www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... The first closed-loop test of deep ensembles in a participant with bilateral intracortical microelectrode arrays, demonstrating a reduction in word error rate from 33.7% to 26.0% on a large-vocabulary task

Very Early Cortical Auditory Responses to Speech in Humans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... collected simultaneous EEG & MEG in adults listening to both naturalistic speech and clicks, & computed the resulting temporal response functions -> speech early peak - 11 ms latency - absent for clicks

Cross-modal applications of a neuromorphic olfactory learning algorithm www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Adapted an olfactory neuromorphic algorithm to image and sound recognition 😮

The 16th Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) will be held in Sydney, Australia, October 2, 2026. Some updates: * Extended deadline : June 19, 2026 😘 * Please note: Authors of accepted papers may instead submit a video presentation 👀 For Call for Papers, see project.inria.fr/avsp2026/cal...

Gaze dynamics of cued speech perception https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42277064/

From rhythms to meaning: Longitudinal evidence on multimodal precursors of early gestures and language development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Longitudinal study examined frequency & developmental trajectories of spontaneous movements, rhythmic movements & gestures in triadic interactions

📚 Citation Classic "A direct realist view of cross-language speech perception" C.T. Best (1995) Citations: 3500+ Introduced the Perceptual Assimil... 🔗 https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=-R12nhoAAAAJ&citation_for_view=-R12nhoAAAAJ:VN7nJs4JPk0C #SpeechScience

Advances in Child Development and Behavior Volume 70, 2026, Pages 157-198. Advances in Child Development and Behavior. Chapter Six - Computational modeling of early language learning from acoustic speech and audiovisual input without linguistic priors www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

Developmental Shift in Multimodal Cue Usage in Early Mother-Child Conversational Initiation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Gaze & object-oriented action a key role in early interaction -> communicative strategies in mother–child exchange adapt as children initiate verbal exchange

Flexible neural encoding predicts the comprehension of degraded speech https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.05.730499v1

Looking to and Processing of Audiovisual Speech and Associations with Language in Infant Siblings of Autistic and Non-autistic Children www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... EEG data of 54 2-18 months infants (29 Sibs-Autism; 25 Sibs-NA) watching videos of AV and AO speech, eye tracking & language data

Are you a curious person? Curiosity and evidence fish quality affect information seeking and eye movements the during reading www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Then you probably noticed... Anyhow, "Higher state curiosity was related to lower word-skipping rates during reading" & longer fixation

If you're in Sydney October 2nd - come and be a part of AVSP history! Hope to see you there. project.inria.fr/avsp2026/

📚 Citation Classic "Software for a cascade/parallel formant synthesizer" D.H. Klatt (1980) Citations: 3600+ Detailed the Klatt synthesizer architecture. An absolute cornerstone for early text-to-speech systems. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1121/1.383940 #SpeechScience

Sign language narrative reveals universal & modality-specific features of cortical timescale hierarchy www.nature.com/articles/s41... A Polish Sign Language narrative of The Fall of the House of Usher robustly synchronized DMN activity across Deaf native signers ->indicating a shared representation?

It seems people now know about their Interspeech submissions ... if you're headed for Sydney please check out the Auditory-visual Speech Processing AVSP 2026 satellite workshop October 2 project.inria.fr/avsp2026/ The 2nd AVSP was in 1998 (after Interspeech 98) - this year will be the 16th edition!

Sensory integration, postural stability, and quality of life: a multidimensional assessment in adult hearing aid users link.springer.com/article/10.1... "Hearing loss appears to affect not only auditory function but also sensory processing, postural control, and aspects of quality of life"

The enduring legacy of linear prediction for characterizing speech signals https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42223990/

A comparison of capturing speech breathing using respiratory inductive plethysmography and electromagnetic articulography journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... A novel approach to speech breathing analysis by evaluating Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) for tracking speech breathing patterns

Training with orthographic stress and rhythm markers improves adult readers’ prosodic sensitivity link.springer.com/article/10.1... "[F]indings suggest that simple orthographic enhancements for stress and rhythm may strengthen prosodic sensitivity on marker-assisted tasks" ->reading intervention?

🔬 Speech Science Sunday Hidden Markov Models for Speech A thread 🧵