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Record W4407144347 · doi:10.25071/2564-2855.44

The other-accent effect on speaker recognition

2025· article· en· W4407144347 on OpenAlexafffundvenueabout
Pamela Bautista, Julien Plante-Hébert

Bibliographic record

VenueWorking papers in Applied Linguistics and Linguistics at York · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhonetics and Phonology Research
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Montréal
FundersUniversité du Québec à Montréal
KeywordsStress (linguistics)Speech recognitionSpeaker recognitionLinguisticsComputer sciencePsychologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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The present article investigates the other-accent effect (OAE) on speaker recognition in the context of voice line-ups for speakers of Quebecois and Hexagonal (France) French. The literature largely attests to a language familiarity effect (LFE) that can bias the results of this forensic phonetics technique. A far less substantial number of studies have investigated whether this finding also extends to varieties of a single language (regional or social). The main aims of the present study are therefore to test whether such an effect is present for the two varieties of French concerned, and whether the predominance of the so-called “standard” variant of French generates a measurable asymmetry in this effect. Participants (n = 34) whose native French was either Quebecois or Hexagonal took part in a speaker recognition task through two voice line-ups, one for each variety of French. The findings indicate that there is no significant OAE on speaker recognition for the French varieties studied, despite some noteworthy tendencies related to the asymmetry between the two varieties of French and the duration of stay of the French participants in Quebec.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.988
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.289 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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