• RESEARCH:
• relationship between speech prosody and pragmatic/discourse aspect of the message, turn-taking, discourse markers, etc.
• alignment/entrainment between interlocutors
• relationship between phonetics and phonology with a special interest in the articulatory characteristics of speech
• applications to foreign language acquisition & teaching and speech processing (synthesis, recognition, dialogue systems)

• Selected recent publications below and citations (Google Scholar)
• Complete publications in CV (in pdf)

• CURRENT POSITIONS:
• Full Professor
  Constantine the Philosopher University, Faculty of Arts
  Dept. of English and American Studies
  Stefanikova 67
  94974 NITRA, Slovakia

• Research scientist:
  Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Informatics
  Dept. of Speech Analysis and Synthesis
  Dubravska cesta 9
  845 07 BRATISLAVA, Slovakia

Karpinsky, M., Andreeva, B., Asu, E. L., Daugavet, A., Beňuš, Š., Mády, K. (2020). Central and Eastern Europe. In Gussenhoven, Carlos and Chen, Aoju (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody. Oxford University Press, pp. 225-235.

Kejriwal, J., Mishra, C., Skantze, G., Offrede, T., Beňuš, Š. (2024). Does a Robot’s Gaze Behavior Affect Entrainment in HRI?. Computing and Informatics, 43(5), 1256–1284.

Sabo, R., Beňuš, Š., , Kevická, V., Trnka, M., Rusko, M., Darjaa, S. & Kejriwal, J. (2024). Towards the Use of Social Robot Furhat and Generative AI in Testing Cognitive Abilities. Human Affairs, 34(2), 224-243.

Sabo, R., Beňuš, Š., Trnka, M., Ritomský, M., Rusko, M., Schaper, M., Szabo, J. (2021). Database of Speech under Stress in Slovak. Jazykovedný časopis 72 (2), 579-589.

Gálvez, R., Gravano, A., Beňuš, Š., Levitan, R., Trnka, M., Hirschberg, J. (2020). An empirical study of the effect of acoustic-prosodic entrainment on the perceived trustworthiness of conversational avatars. Speech Communication 124, 46-67.

Brusco, P., Vidal, J., Beňuš, Š., Gravano, A. (2000). A cross-linguistic analysis of the temporal dynamics of turn-taking cues using machine learning as a descriptive tool. Speech Communication 125, 24-40.

Yuan Z., de Jong D., Beňuš Š., Nguyen N., Feng R., Sabo R., Fadiga L., D’Ausilio A. (2024). ART: The Alternating Reading Task Corpus for Speech Entrainment and Imitation. Proceedings, of LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy, 1548 – 1562.

Mareková L., Beňuš Š. (2024). Task complexity and pausing behavior in L1 and L2 task-oriented dialogues. In. ed. Yiya Chen, Aoju Chen and Amalia Arvaniti, Speech Prosody 2024: Proceedings from 13th International Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands. Boston : International Science Community Association, ISSN 2333-2042, pp. 517-521.

Kejriwal, J., Beňuš, Š. (2023). Relationship between auditory and semantic entrainment using Deep Neural Networks (DNN). Proc. INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin, Ireland, 2623-2627.

Mareková, L., Kruyt, J., Beňuš, Š. (2023). The effect of (non-)native language and task complexity on speech entrainment. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Aug 2023, Prague, Czech Republic, 1548-1552.

Figueroa, C., Beňuš, Š., Skantze, G. (2023). Prosodic Alignment in Different Conversational Feedback Functions. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Aug 2023, Prague, Czech Republic, 1514-1518.

Kruyt, J., Polónyiová, K., Ostatníková, D., Beňuš, Š. (2023). Lexical entrainment on target words during task-oriented interaction in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Proceedings of the 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Aug 2023, Maribor, Slovenia, 6-14. Andy Lücking, Chiara Mazzocconi & Darinka Verdonik (eds.), ISSN 2308-2275.

Kruyt, J., Polónyiová, K., Ostatníková, D., Beňuš, Š. (2023). Global and local prosodic entrainment in a task-oriented interaction in autistic and neurotypical children. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Connecting Multiple Disciplines to AI Techniques in Interaction-centric Autism Research and Diagnosis (ICARD 2023), pages 1–11, Prague, Czechia. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Kejriwal J., Beňuš Š. (2023). Speech entrainment and emotion. 14th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom, 99 – 104.

Kruyt, J., Beňuš, Š., Faget, C., Lancon, Ch., Champagne-Lavau, M. (2022). Prosodic and lexical entrainment in adults with and without schizophrenia. Proc. Speech Prosody 2022, 125-129. [doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-26].

Kejriwal, J., Beňuš, Š., Trnka, M. (2022). Stress detection using non-semantic speech representation. 32nd International Conference RADIOELEKTRONIKA, 1-5. [doi: 10.1109/RADIOELEKTRONIKA54537.2022.9764916].

Heldner, M., Włodarczak, M., Beňuš, Š., Gravano, A. (2019). Voice Quality as a Turn-Taking Cue. In: Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, pp. 4165–4169. [doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-1592]