Voice Pleasantness of Female Voices and the Assessment of Physical Characteristics

It has been demonstrated that there seem to be non-linguistic patterns from which listeners refer to the appearance of a speaker. This study completes the collected voice parameters, which count so far as indicators of physical attributes and as factors for voice attractiveness. Since scientists tend to prefer male voices for such analyses this one is based on female voices and bothgendered judges. 20 female voices were played to 102 listeners, 52 male and 50 female. Because of different rating strategies of female and male listeners, the group specific rating strategies were compared; a bimodal rating dispersion was assumed and mostly proved.