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The authors studied pauses of silence in two types of videos: American sitcoms and AI-created podcasts. They looked at how long these silent gaps were and compared them based on whether the speaker was male or female. Speaker gender was determined by analyzing voice pitch using a tool called Praat. The study also considered different production conditions to see how they affected the silence gaps.
silence gapsaudiovisual materialsituational comedysynthetic podcastsGoogle NotebookLMspeaker genderfundamental frequencyPraatproduction settings
Authors
Taylor Arnold, Nicolas Ballier, Artem Saloev
Abstract
This study investigates silence gaps in two kinds of audiovisual material. We analysed thirty US situational comedies and fifty-one synthetic podcasts generated with Google NotebookLM. Gaps were compared across speaker gender, assigned from a fundamental-frequency threshold estimated in Praat, and across production settings.