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i wonder if voice masking is actually enough. i (zoomer) know my voice is significantly different from most of my female peers. idk if this makes sense but i h
by collegeburner 4y ago
i wonder if voice masking is actually enough. i (zoomer) know my voice is significantly different from most of my female peers.
idk if this makes sense but i have a more stereotypically "confident" inflection, like my phrases don't rise in pitch at the end, i don't have the "creaky voice" thing etc. i also notice women tend to use more superlative optimistic phrasing ("perfect" vs "good" in response to something) and less definite language (prefacing more often with "i feel" or "maybe").
this is all obv anecdotal but i'm guessing i could guess male vs. female even if the pitches were modulated to be equal. shame there's no example of how male voices sounded modulated.
- bobthepanda 4y agoVoice and accents are very identifying, and some are indeed associated with gender (e.g. the “Valley” accent of California). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_profiling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_profiling
- renonce 4y agoThese things might be in theory possible but I wonder if any interviewer would watch out for such little things just to identify if the interviewee is a man or woman. Maybe we should get some more example modulated voices so we know for ourself.
- collegeburner 4y agoi agree but there are people who argue "unconscious bias" is at play and interviewers could unconsciously recognize the voice. like the female example they gave it's still extremely apart from how normal men talk, i didn't have to focus at all. though tbh my first thought was it sounded like a gay male so maybe it sort of works?