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14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14)San Francisco, CA, USA |
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This paper aims at investigating, with quantitative data, the
relationship between voice and the image information carried
within the voice.
Speech samples from 8 males and 8 females were recorded.
Two pictures were taken for each speaker: one showing the
whole body with the reference background so that physical
characteristics may be easily compared, and the other showing
only the face.
Then subjects were asked to match the voices with the
corresponding pictures. The results showed that, with the
whole-body pictures, 6 females and 4 males were correctly
identified while with the face-only pictures, 3 females and 2
males were correctly matched. However, even in cases of
mismatch, there was a strong tendency for participants to agree
on which voice should correspond to which picture in all cases.
It seems that voice does give the listener information on
physical characteristics, with greater accuracy than we expected.
Bibliographic reference. Moon, Seung-Jae (1999): "What you hear is what you see?: a progress report", In ICPhS-14, 1241-1244.