#drunk speech

day #14 normal Levi on number 9 (drunk speech) requested by anonymous! somehow I find him the easiest to draw

So sorry @whatdoyoumeantheyarentreal!!! I uploaded this to my Instagram but DID NOT shared on Tumblr! my apologies....here’s your drunk Armin trying to give a motivational speech

When I mentioned this study of stoned speech, superlinguo very helpfully called my attention to this entire corpus on alcohol-influenced speech from the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals. 

From the description: 

ALC contains recordings of speakers that are either intoxicated or sober. The type of speech ranges from read single digits to full conversation style. Recordings were done during drinking test where speakers drank beer or wine to reach a self-chosen level of alcoholic intoxication. The actual level of intoxication was measured by breath alcohol and blood samples taken immediately before the speech recording. 

Recordings were performed in two standing automobiles to ensure a constant acoustic environment across the different recording locations; both, the intoxicated and sober condition recording were done in the same car and supervised by the same investigator (dialogue partner). In the intoxicated state 30 items were sampled from each speaker (set A), while in the sober state 60 items were recorded (set NA; set A being a subset of set NA).

I originally wondered if the study design (”self-chosen level of intoxication”) meant that they were taking a couple labs-in-vans around to various bars in Germany and asking the already-drunk patrons if they wanted to do a study. But further digging has revealed that the data was collected via the far more ethical means of asking sober participants how drunk they’d like to get and then serving them a calculated amount of alcohol, and that the in-vehicle testing was because the intoxication levels were measured in partnership with an agency against drunk driving. 

Benedict Cumberbatch accepts his GQ award 2014 drunk :D