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This would be a fantastic additional thing to monitor for. It was my first thought after hearing the voice modulation clips-- even in a manly voice, someone say
by Jemmeh 10y ago
This would be a fantastic additional thing to monitor for. It was my first thought after hearing the voice modulation clips-- even in a manly voice, someone saying, "Oh I totally sound like a dude" sounded quite feminine since most guys wouldn't say "totally."
Two things I noticed from the clip on the FastCompany article-- it's modulated, but I can hear A.) Vocal Fry B.) Statements that sound like they're ending with a question (the voice goes up at the end.). These are both more common speaking patterns with women. The question thing in particular is common with people who are not as confident.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoWhat evidence do you have that some speaking patterns are more common with women? Can you link to some data? Edit: Lots of opinions here. Still no data.
- MasterScrat 10y agoI don't know about cues in spoken English, but you can find relevant articles about written text from this page: https://civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/best-practices-for-ethical-gender-research-at-very-large-scales https://civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/best-practices-for-eth... Read under "Inferring Gender from Content".
- jsprogrammer 10y agoI did. That section is primarily discussing analysing the pronouns used to find a gender of the target, or exploit word based genders in those languages (French in one instance) that support it. Other examples were a selective study on Twitter, where the experimenters don't even know the true gender, or even humanity, of the user. The author of the section seems to disclaim the entire idea, somewhat (as it probably should be). I was looking for something that could hold up to the claim that individuals of the same gender do, in fact, have common speech patterns. For example, "this pattern has only been observed with women", and, "this pattern has only been seen with men".
- windust 10y agonot quite patterns, but preferences :) https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
- Jemmeh 10y agoJust to be clear, men do vocal fry and uptalk(ending sentences with upward inflection/making it sound like a question) too. Just less often. And not all women use uptalk and vocal fry. Uptalk is more common in women: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/overturning-the-myth-of-valley-girl-speak/ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/overturning-the-myt... Vocal fry is more common in women: "An examination of creaky voice occurring in natural conversations among relatively young educated American and Japanese speakers revealed that female speakers of American English residing in California employed creaky voice much more frequently than comparable American male and Japanese female speakers." http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/85/3/315.abstract http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/85/3/315.abst... (Edit: I'd like to find better resources on this if available. These seem to be small studies.)
- jsprogrammer 10y agoThe NYT blog post starts out discussing regional dialects, then presents a study of 23 Southern Californians aged 18-22... The only study the post links to is paywalled and the link to a conference paper is dead. Your second link is also paywalled.
- Jemmeh 10y agoI've found most studies to be paywalled in general aside from the free abstract. Not really sure what to do about that.
- omginternets 10y agoScihub, though I can't find a functioning mirror right now.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoYou could quote the relevant part of the study, or, not link to paywalls. [It's not your fault, just the current reality.]
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- new_hackers 10y agodude, what decade are you from? I'm totally stoked about this totally tubular voice modulation. It's like totally wicked dude! Totally!
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- lifeformed 10y agoWhat if you just used a third party, like a translator? Someone listens to the voice and recaps it in his own words.