Voices and Listeners: Toward a Model of Voice Perception

Kreiman, Jody; Sidtis, Diana

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Acoustics Today / Volume 7 / Issue 4 / ARTICLES

Voices and Listeners: Toward a Model of Voice Perception

Acou. Today Volume 7, Issue 4, pp. 7-15 (2011); (9 pages)

Jody Kreiman¹ and Diana Sidtis^2,3

¹Department of Head/Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095
²Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, New York University, New York, New York 10012
³Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York 10962

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As humans, we are exquisitely tuned to voices and all that they are capable of conveying. On hearing someone speak, we quickly infer details about gender, age, education, and geographical background. We listen for signs of interest, well‐being, competence, and cooperation, or coldness, ineptness, and resistance. Along with these, mood, emotional conditions, personality, and psychological status are simultaneously assessed by the listener, with varying accuracies. These speaker characteristics constitute a very large, complex array and pose huge challenges to analytic approaches.