Voice pitch: a window into the communication of social power

T Aung, D Puts - Current opinion in psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Low voice pitch conveys impressions related to social power.•We consider why
sex differences in voice pitch evolved in humans and other primates.•Evidence suggests that …

A tutorial review on clinical acoustic markers in speech science

BG Schultz, AP Vogel - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: The human voice changes with the progression of neurological disease and the
onset of diseases that affect articulators, often decreasing the effectiveness of …

[HTML][HTML] Infant cries convey both stable and dynamic information about age and identity

M Lockhart-Bouron, A Anikin, K Pisanski… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
What information is encoded in the cries of human babies? While it is widely recognized that
cries can encode distress levels, whether cries reliably encode the cause of crying remains …

Human infant cries communicate distress and elicit sex stereotypes: Cross cultural evidence

C Cornec, N Mathevon, K Pisanski, D Entani… - Evolution and Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
The degree to which culture and context contribute to variability in human behaviour is a
critical scientific question. While most research in the human behavioural sciences is based …

Secure user verification and continuous authentication via earphone imu

J Liu, W Song, L Shen, J Han… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Biometric plays an important role in user authentication. However, the most widely used
biometrics, such as facial feature and fingerprint, are easy to capture or record, and thus …

Individual differences in human voice pitch are preserved from speech to screams, roars and pain cries

K Pisanski, J Raine, D Reby - Royal Society open …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fundamental frequency (F 0, perceived as voice pitch) predicts sex and age, hormonal
status, mating success and a range of social traits, and thus functions as an important …

Gay voice: Stable marker of sexual orientation or flexible communication device?

M Daniele, F Fasoli, R Antonio, S Sulpizio… - Archives of Sexual …, 2020 - Springer
Listeners rely on vocal features when guessing others' sexual orientation. What is less clear
is whether speakers modulate their voice to emphasize or to conceal their sexual …

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 …

Human voice pitch measures are robust across a variety of speech recordings: methodological and theoretical implications

K Pisanski, A Groyecka-Bernard… - Biology …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fundamental frequency (fo), perceived as voice pitch, is the most sexually dimorphic,
perceptually salient and intensively studied voice parameter in human nonverbal …

A house of cards: bias in perception of body size mediates the relationship between voice pitch and perceptions of dominance

MM Armstrong, AJ Lee, DR Feinberg - Animal Behaviour, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•We found that dominance judgements of the voice are based on body size
perceptions.•Body size judgements are based on voice pitch.•Voice pitch is not related to …