This research was designed to investigate the effects of selected vocal disguises upon speaker identification by listening. The experiment consisted of 360 pair discriminations presented in a fixed-sequence mode. The listeners were asked to decide whether two sentences were uttered by the same or different speakers and to rate their degree of confidence in each decision. The speakers produced two sentence sets utilizing their normal speaking mode and five selected disguises. One member of each stimulus pair in the listening task was always an undisguised speech sample; the other member was either disguised or undisguised. Two listener groups were trained for the task: a naive group of 24 undergraduate students, and a sophisticated group of three doctoral students and three professors of Speech and Hearing Sciences. Both groups of listeners were able to discriminate speakers with a moderately high degree of accuracy (92% correct) when both members of the stimulus pair were undisguised. The inclusion of a disguised speech sample in the stimulus pair significantly interfered with listener performance (59%--81% correct depending upon the particular disguise). These results present a similar pattern to this authors' previous results utilizing spectrographic speaker-identification tasks (Reich et al., 1976).
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