Les temps de traitement des voix de femmes et d'hommes sont-ils équivalents ? (Are female and male voices processed equally fast?) [in French]

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Are female and male voices processed equally fast? This study deals with processing time of female and male speech. Several authors showed that vowel identification was more difficult on voices with a high F0 (Ryalls & Lieberman, 1982). Does this have consequences on word processing? Are female voices processed more slowly than male ones? A word spotting experiment was conducted in order to test the participants’ response time, depending on whether the target word is produced by a male or a female voice. Results suggest that these two types of voice are processed equally fast, even though they seem processed as two different entities. MOTS-CLES : voix de femmes, voix d’hommes, temps de traitement, détection de mots.