A listening experiment has been performed in which, among others, the identification of profession (6 categories), sex (male and female) and age (4 categories) of 60 speakers from 3 different profession categories was measured. The 40 subjects also gave their opinion about typical voice and pronunciation characteristics in six different professions. This was done by means of 18 semantic bipolar 7-point scales. The first results show that sex has been identified 99.6% correct The identification of the age of the speakers was also rather well determined (the linear correlation between the mean scores and the actual ages was 0.83 for the male and 0.71 for the female speakers). The identification of someone's profession shows that there is some relationship between voice and pronunciation characteristics and profession. Furthermore, certain prototypical effects concerning the speaker's sex versus the profession judged were found. Only part of the data has been analysed so far.
Cite as: Tielen, M.T.J. (1990) Perception of the voices of men and women in relation to their profession. Proc. ESCA Workshop on Speaker Characterization in Speech Technology, 192-197
@inproceedings{tielen90_scst,
author={M. T. J. Tielen},
title={{Perception of the voices of men and women in relation to their profession}},
year=1990,
booktitle={Proc. ESCA Workshop on Speaker Characterization in Speech Technology},
pages={192--197}
}