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I always assumed it stemmed from the telephone operators being primarily female, which lead to a large corpus of audio recordings, which lead to the training da
by banana_giraffe 4y ago
I always assumed it stemmed from the telephone operators being primarily female, which lead to a large corpus of audio recordings, which lead to the training data for the first decent text-to-speech models being mostly women voices.
- ars 4y agoIt's also because the higher pitched voices are easier to understand when there is noise. I believe the military did some research on this.
- sliken 4y agoI did read about some military research along these lines. I don't recall noise resistance being mentioned, but that the young male air force pilots responded more quickly and accurately to female voices.