To examine differences in vibrato rate and extent according to vowel, production type, gender, voice type, and vocal training.
A recipient of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and the Dissertation Year Fellowship and holder of graduate certificates in Digital Humanities and Experimental Critical Theory, Tiffany is a scholar of popular music, temporality, and disability studies with secondary specializations in gender, voice, and media studies.
You can change the language, voice gender, voice feedback, and the name Siri calls you.
We generated male and female prototypical voice stimuli by averaging all 32 same-gender voices by using morphing.
BOLD signal was then measured while participants listened to the different voice stimuli (presented in runs of same-gender voices) and performed a pure tone detection task.
The male and female prototypical voices appear well approximated by the morphing-generated average of many same-gender voices, a process resulting in voices with (gender) average f0 and formant frequencies but with high HNR values; i.e., a very common voice but ideally regular and flawless, perceived as highly attractive by listeners [ 8, 9].
Here, we show by using fMRI that voice identity is coded in the TVA as a function of acoustical distance to two internal voice prototypes (one male, one female)—approximated here by averaging a large number of same-gender voices by using morphing [ 12].
Future research should include more female participants, and should investigate the effect of a mixed-gender voice.
A sign of the times: Phobot personas have sparked debate among the politically correct, with feminists demanding that engineers concoct "gender neutral" voices.
For instance, the age-old axiom that "sex sells" has, during the dawn of a new era in social justice and gender equality voices, weathered criticism.
