An objective voice gender scoring system and identification of the salient acoustic measures

Fuling Chen, Roberto Togneri, Murray Maybery, Diana Tan

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Interspeech 2020
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 21st annual conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Place of Publication	Baixas, France
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Pages	1848-1852
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1627
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	INTERSPEECH (21st : 2020) - Shanghai, China Duration: 25 Oct 2020 → 29 Oct 2020

Publication series

Name	Interspeech
ISSN (Electronic)	1990-9772

Conference

Conference	INTERSPEECH (21st : 2020)
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai
Period	25/10/20 → 29/10/20

Keywords

Femininity
Gender scoring
LDA
Masculinity

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Chen, F., Togneri, R., Maybery, M., & Tan, D. (2020). An objective voice gender scoring system and identification of the salient acoustic measures. In Interspeech 2020: Proceedings of the 21st annual conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 1848-1852). (Interspeech). International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1627

Chen, Fuling ; Togneri, Roberto ; Maybery, Murray et al. / An objective voice gender scoring system and identification of the salient acoustic measures. Interspeech 2020: Proceedings of the 21st annual conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Baixas, France : International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2020. pp. 1848-1852 (Interspeech).

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abstract = "Human voices vary in their perceived masculinity or femininity, and subjective gender scores provided by human raters have long been used in psychological studies to understand the complex psychosocial relationships between people. However, there has been limited research on developing objective gender scoring of voices and examining the correlation between objective gender scores (including the weighting of each acoustic factor) and subjective gender scores (i.e., perceived masculinity/ femininity). In this work we propose a gender scoring model based on Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and using weakly labelled data to objectively rate speakers{\textquoteright} masculinity and femininity. For 434 speakers, we investigated 29 acoustic measures of voice characteristics and their relationships to both the objective scores and subjective masculinity/femininity ratings. The results revealed close correspondence between objective scores and subjective ratings of masculinity for males and femininity for females (correlations of 0.667 and 0.505 respectively). Among the 29 measures, F0 was found to be the most important vocal characteristic inﬂuencing both objective and subjective ratings for both sexes. For female voices, local absolute jitter and Harmonic-to-Noise Ratio (HNR) were moderately associated with objective scores. For male voices, F0 variance inﬂuenced objective gender scores more than the subjective ratings provided by human listeners.",

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Chen, F, Togneri, R, Maybery, M & Tan, D 2020, An objective voice gender scoring system and identification of the salient acoustic measures. in Interspeech 2020: Proceedings of the 21st annual conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Baixas, France, pp. 1848-1852, INTERSPEECH (21st : 2020), Shanghai, China, 25/10/20. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1627

An objective voice gender scoring system and identification of the salient acoustic measures. / Chen, Fuling; Togneri, Roberto; Maybery, Murray et al.
Interspeech 2020: Proceedings of the 21st annual conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2020. p. 1848-1852 (Interspeech).