Modeling the perception of children's age from speech acoustics

Adult listeners were presented with /hVd/ syllables spoken by boys and girls ranging from 5 to 18 years of age. Half of the listeners were informed of the sex of the speaker; the other half were not. Results indicate that veridical age in children can be predicted accurately based on the acoustic ch...

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Published in:The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2018-05, Vol.143 (5), p.EL361-EL366
Main Authors: Barreda, Santiago, Assmann, Peter F.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Adult listeners were presented with /hVd/ syllables spoken by boys and girls ranging from 5 to 18 years of age. Half of the listeners were informed of the sex of the speaker; the other half were not. Results indicate that veridical age in children can be predicted accurately based on the acoustic characteristics of the talker's voice and that listener behavior is highly predictable on the basis of speech acoustics. Furthermore, listeners appear to incorporate assumptions about talker sex into their estimates of talker age, even when information about the talker's sex is not explicitly provided for them.
ISSN:0001-4966
1520-8524
DOI:10.1121/1.5037614