Acoustic voice variation within and between speakers

Y Lee, P Keating, J Kreiman - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Little is known about the nature or extent of everyday variability in voice quality. This paper
describes a series of principal component analyses to explore within-and between-talker …

Online data collection in auditory perception and cognition research: Recruitment, testing, data quality and ethical considerations

T Eerola, J Armitage, N Lavan… - Auditory Perception & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Online studies using recruitment services (such as Prolific or Amazon's MTurk) and online
testing platforms (such as Gorilla or PsyToolkit) are becoming increasingly common in …

Judgements of a speaker's personality are correlated across differing content and stimulus type

G Mahrholz, P Belin, P McAleer - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
It has previously been shown that first impressions of a speaker's personality, whether
accurate or not, can be judged from short utterances of vowels and greetings, as well as …

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 …

Are super‐face‐recognisers also super‐voice‐recognisers? Evidence from cross‐modal identification tasks

RE Jenkins, S Tsermentseli, CP Monks… - Applied Cognitive …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Individual differences in face identification ability range from prosopagnosia to super‐
recognition. The current study examined whether face identification ability predicts voice …

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 …

Highly accurate and robust identity perception from personally familiar voices.

E Kanber, N Lavan, C McGettigan - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous research suggests that familiarity with a voice can afford benefits for voice and
speech perception. However, even familiar voice perception has been reported to be error …

The effects of high variability training on voice identity learning

N Lavan, S Knight, V Hazan, C McGettigan - Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
High variability training has been shown to benefit the learning of new face identities. In
three experiments, we investigated whether this is also the case for voice identity learning. In …

[HTML][HTML] Speaker discrimination performance for “easy” versus “hard” voices in style-matched and-mismatched speech

A Afshan, J Kreiman, A Alwan - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This study compares human speaker discrimination performance for read speech versus
casual conversations and explores differences between unfamiliar voices that are “easy” …

Arousal level and exemplar variability of emotional face and voice encoding influence expression-independent identity recognition

H Xu, JL Armony - Motivation and Emotion, 2024 - Springer
Emotional stimuli and events are better and more easily remembered than neutral ones.
However, this advantage appears to come at a cost, namely a decreased accuracy for …