Perceptual and acoustic analysis of voice similarities between parents and young children

Evgeniia Rykova, Stefan Werner


Abstract
Human voice provides the means for verbal communication and forms a part of personal identity. Due to genetic and environmental factors, a voice of a child should resemble the voice of her parent(s), but voice similarities between parents and young children are underresearched. Read-aloud speech of Finnish-speaking and Russian-speaking parent-child pairs was subject to perceptual and multi-step instrumental and statistical analysis. Finnish-speaking listeners could not discriminate family pairs auditorily in an XAB paradigm, but the Russian-speaking listeners’ mean accuracy of answers reached 72.5%. On average, in both language groups family-internal f0 similarities were stronger than family-external, with parents showing greater family-internal similarities than children. Auditory similarities did not reflect acoustic similarities in a straightforward way.
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W19-6127
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Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics
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September–October
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2019
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Turku, Finland
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NoDaLiDa
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Linköping University Electronic Press
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262–271
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Evgeniia Rykova and Stefan Werner. 2019. Perceptual and acoustic analysis of voice similarities between parents and young children. In Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 262–271, Turku, Finland. Linköping University Electronic Press.
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