The evolution of gender dimorphism in the human voice: the role of octave equivalence

N Bannan, R Dunbar, J Bamford - Current Anthropology, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Humans exhibit what appears to be a unique vocal property: octave equivalence, whereby
adult male voices are, on average, an octave lower in pitch than those of adult females and …

Do voice-based judgments of socially relevant speaker traits differ across speech types?

A Groyecka-Bernard, K Pisanski, T Frąckowiak… - Journal of Speech …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: The human voice is a powerful and evolved social tool, with hundreds of studies
showing that nonverbal vocal parameters robustly influence listeners' perceptions of socially …

[HTML][HTML] Classroom airing behaviour significantly affects pupil well-being and concentration performance–Results of a large-scale citizen science study in Danish …

J Toftum, G Clausen - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
This study surveyed the indoor environment in Danish classrooms and explored its
associations with pupil well-being and performance. It was a large-scale citizen science …

Voice-based judgments of sex, height, weight, attractiveness, health, and psychological traits based on free speech versus scripted speech

P Sorokowski, K Pisanski, T Frąckowiak… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
How do we perceive others based on their voices? This question has attracted research and
media attention for decades, producing hundreds of studies showing that the voice is …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing accuracy in voice-based assessments of biological speaker traits across speech types

P Sorokowski, A Groyecka-Bernard, T Frackowiak… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Nonverbal acoustic parameters of the human voice provide cues to a vocaliser's sex, age,
and body size that are relevant in human social and sexual communication, and also …

Masculine voice is associated with better mucosal immune defense in adolescent and adult males

CR Hodges-Simeon, G Albert, T McHale… - Evolution and Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (ICHH) contends that testosterone-
dependent, masculine traits are honest signals of the bearer's ability to withstand …

Pain cues override identity cues in baby cries

S Corvin, C Fauchon, H Patural, R Peyron, D Reby… - iScience, 2024 - cell.com
Baby cries can convey both static information related to individual identity and dynamic
information related to the baby's emotional and physiological state. How do these …

Persistence of voice pitch bias against policy differences

AC Cinar, Ö Kıbrıs - Political Science Research and Methods, 2024 - cambridge.org
We use an online experiment to study the relative effect on voter behavior of a candidate's
voice pitch and policy stance. We demonstrate a strong voice-pitch bias: between …

SpokeN-100: A Cross-Lingual Benchmarking Dataset for The Classification of Spoken Numbers in Different Languages

R Groh, N Goes, AM Kist - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09753, 2024 - arxiv.org
Benchmarking plays a pivotal role in assessing and enhancing the performance of compact
deep learning models designed for execution on resource-constrained devices, such as …

Enhancing Singing Performances: Novel Method for Automatic Vocal Pitch Correction

R Shashidhar, DS Aishwarya… - … on Smart Electronics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our research presents a novel method for automatically correcting the pitch of human vocals
using a data-driven approach. Unlike existing commercial systems, which often shift vocal …