On Talker Voice and Language Identification
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Listener similarity judgments of languages seem to be influenced by regional speech characteristics and talker voice quality, and listener responses to voice quality are influenced by language. This study attempted to assess the relationships between judgments about voice quality and judgments about language. In the first experiment, using an ABX format listeners matched spoken samples of unknown languages when produced by male and female talkers. Overall, listeners performed at above chance level. In the second experiment, listeners rated the similarity of the same talkers. Listeners found talkers most similar when they were paired with themselves. They judged talkers speaking the same language as more similar than talkers speaking a different language, even across gender.
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