Investigating the common set of acoustic parameters in sexual orientation groups: A voice averaging approach.

ABSTRACT: While the perception of sexual orientation in voices often relies on stereotypes, it is unclear whether speech stereotypes and accurate perceptions of sexual orientation are each based on acoustic cues common to speakers of a given group. We ask if the stereotypical belief, that members of the same sexual orientation group share similar acoustic patterns, is accurate to some degree. To address this issue, we are the first to use a novel voice morphing technique to create voice averages from voices that represent extremes of a given sexual orientation group either in terms of actual or perceived sexual orientation. Importantly, averaging preserves only those acoustic cues shared by the original speakers. 144 German listeners judged the sexual orientation of twelve natural-sounding sentence

SUBMITTER: Kachel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6287851 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature