A speech analysis-synthesis ystem was used to manipulate variance of fundamental frequency and a mechanical rate changer was used to manipulate speech rate. The synthesized and altered voices were tested for realism. Synthesized voices were mistaken for normal 50% to 58% of the time and rate-changed voices were mistaken for normal 78% of the time. Additional studies were conducted to test the e...

This paper presents an approach toward rapid creation of varied synthetic voices at low cost. This consists of amassing audio web contents, extracting usable speech from them, further transcribing the speech to surface text and performing phone-time alignment, and using the speech and transcripts to build HMMbased voices. A set of experiments is conducted to evaluate this approach. The results ...

Semantic information is more likely to be retrieved from recognized faces than from recognized voices. Earlier studies which investigated the recall of biographical information following person recognition used famous people’s voices and faces. The present study was designed with the aim of controlling more strictly the exposure frequency to both domains of stimuli (voices and faces). Participa...

This study examines the differences between young and old adult voices. Acoustic cues in voices that enable listeners to recognize a speaker’s vocal age are specified as well as acoustic cues that straightly indicate the speaker’s chronological age. Electroglottographic data were used to directly examine glottal behaviour in aging voices. We found a strong spectral attenuation of high frequenci...

This study examines the differences between young and old adult voices. Acoustic cues in voices that enable listeners to recognize a speaker’s vocal age are specified as well as acoustic cues that straightly indicate the speaker’s chronological age. Electroglottographic data were used to directly examine glottal behaviour in aging voices. We found a strong spectral attenuation of high frequenci...

Troubling longstanding histories of teaching elementary school with an asexual approach for fear children losing their innocence, this paper argues that schools and teacher preparation programs should be explicit about the inclusion LGBTQ + voices perspectives from early childhood forward. Using a narrative inquiry study foreground experiences 19-year-old college student reflecting on queer-bia...

In human mate choice, sexually dimorphic faces and voices comprise hormone-mediated cues that purportedly develop as an indicator of mate quality or the ability to compete with same-sex rivals. If preferences for faces communicate the same biologically relevant information as do voices, then ratings of these cues should correlate. Sixty participants (30 male and 30 female) rated a series of opp...

Objective – This narrative literature review examines how values and a values-based practice framework are positioned as significant to evidence based in libraries. includes examining the partnership between decision making reflective practice. The responds gap on origins application of library information (EBLIP). Methods Searches for this were conducted science databases, discovery tools, ind...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Masked semantic priming in cocktail party situation The present study aimed at testing automatic semantic processing in the auditory modality using the cocktail party situation. Participants had to perform a lexical decision task on a target item embedded in a multi-talker babble. This babbl...

We offer provisional support for a new cognitive approach to understanding and treating drug-resistant auditory hallucinations in people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Study 1 emphasises the relevance of the cognitive model by detailing the behavioural, cognitive and affective responses to persistent voices in 26 patients, demonstrating that highly disparate relationships with voices-fear, ...