ART: The Alternating Reading Task Corpus for Speech Entrainment and
  Imitation
Zheng Yuan Dorina de Jong Štefan Beňuš Noël Nguyen Ruitao Feng Róbert Sabo Luciano Fadiga Alessandro D`Ausilio
We introduce the Alternating Reading Task (ART) Corpus, a collection of
dyadic sentence reading for studying the entrainment and imitation behaviour in
speech communication. The ART corpus features three experimental conditions -
solo reading, alternating reading, and deliberate imitation - as well as three
sub-corpora encompassing French-, Italian-, and Slovak-accented English. This
design allows systematic investigation of speech entrainment in a controlled
and less-spontaneous setting. Alongside detailed transcriptions, it includes
English proficiency scores, demographics, and in-experiment questionnaires for
probing linguistic, personal and interpersonal influences on entrainment. Our
presentation covers its design, collection, annotation processes, initial
analysis, and future research prospects.