arXiv:2504.10650cs.CYcs.AI2025-04被引 7

AI语音正悄然改变人类说话方式,引发社会语言学新议题。

Will AI shape the way we speak? The emerging sociolinguistic influence of synthetic voices

  • 通过语音交互中的语音适应机制,用户会不自觉模仿AI语音特征。
  • 交互式AI比被动媒体更具影响力,可能重塑日常交流中的语言习惯。
  • 研究该现象对理解社会身份塑造与公共舆论控制有重要意义。

对话式语音界面的普及,得益于语音与语言技术的进步,引发了关于其对人类交流影响的重要问题。尽管书面交流可通过词汇和风格体现身份,但基于语音的互动更突出地放大了口音、语调和说话风格等社会索引特征,这些特征显著传达社会身份与群体归属。已有证据表明,电视等被动媒体可能影响观众的语言模式。与被动媒体不同,对话式AI具有交互性,形成更沉浸、双向的动态,具备更强的影响潜力。这种影响可能源于声学-韵律同化与语言适应等自然交互现象,使用户在互动中无意识调整自身语音模式。尽管该现象尚在兴起,其潜在社会影响可能为组织、运动和品牌提供一种微妙而有力的手段,以塑造和控制公众认知与社会身份。我们主张,应关注人工智能语音的社会索引影响,并推动跨学科研究,运用新技术与方法深入理解其含义。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The growing prevalence of conversational voice interfaces, powered by developments in both speech and language technologies, raises important questions about their influence on human communication. While written communication can signal identity through lexical and stylistic choices, voice-based interactions inherently amplify socioindexical elements - such as accent, intonation, and speech style - which more prominently convey social identity and group affiliation. There is evidence that even passive media such as television is likely to influence the audience's linguistic patterns. Unlike passive media, conversational AI is interactive, creating a more immersive and reciprocal dynamic that holds a greater potential to impact how individuals speak in everyday interactions. Such heightened influence can be expected to arise from phenomena such as acoustic-prosodic entrainment and linguistic accommodation, which occur naturally during interaction and enable users to adapt their speech patterns in response to the system. While this phenomenon is still emerging, its potential societal impact could provide organisations, movements, and brands with a subtle yet powerful avenue for shaping and controlling public perception and social identity. We argue that the socioindexical influence of AI-generated speech warrants attention and should become a focus of interdisciplinary research, leveraging new and existing methodologies and technologies to better understand its implications.

语音交互社会语言学AI影响

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