Characteristics of Simulated Sexy Voice

Tuomi, Seppo K.; Fisher, James E.

doi:10.1159/000264171

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“…Indeed, most studies that have either experimentally manipulated voice frequencies or examined natural variation in nonverbal vocal parameters found that deeper voices are perceived as less attractive in women (Pisanski and Feinberg 2019;Puts et al 2016). Nevertheless, several studies have found the opposite (Babel et al 2014;Hughes et al 2014;Pisanski et al 2018;Tuomi and Fisher 1979), perhaps because deeper voices may signal sexual interest, maturity, confidence, and/or competence.…”

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Voice of Authority: Professionals Lower Their Vocal Frequencies When Giving Expert Advice

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Acoustic analysis and playback studies have greatly advanced our understanding of between-individual differences in nonverbal communication. Yet, researchers have only recently begun to investigate within-individual variation in the voice, particularly how people modulate key vocal parameters across various social contexts, with most of this research focusing on mating contexts. Here, we investigated whether men and women modulate the frequency components of their voices in a professional context, and how this voice modulation affects listeners' assessments of the speakers' competence and authority. Research assistants engaged scientists working as faculty members at various universities in two types of speech conditions: (1) Control speech, wherein the subjects were asked how to get to the administrative offices on that given campus; and (2) Authority speech, wherein the same subjects were asked to provide commentary for a radio program for young scholars titled, "How to become a scientist, and is it worth it?". Our results show that male (n = 27) and female (n = 24) faculty members lowered their mean voice pitch (measured as fundamental frequency, F 0) and vocal tract resonances (measured as formant position, P f) when asked to provide their expert opinion compared to when giving directions. Notably, women lowered their mean voice pitch more than did men (by 33 Hz vs. 14 Hz) when giving expert advice. The results of a playback experiment further indicated that foreignspeaking listeners judged the voices of faculty members as relatively more competent and more authoritative based on authority speech than control speech, indicating that the observed nonverbal voice modulation effectively altered listeners' perceptions. Our results support the prediction that people modulate their voices in social contexts in ways that are likely to elicit favorable social appraisals.

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Voice of Authority: Professionals Lower Their Vocal Frequencies When Giving Expert Advice

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“…Esimerkiksi jatkuva normaalia matalampi puhekorkeus voi olla vahingollista äänelle ja aiheuttaa jopa äänihuulikyhmyjä tai granuloomia (mm. Aronson, 1973;Brodnitz, 1965;Tuomi & Fisher, 1979).…”

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16-17-vuotiaiden suomalaisnuorten puheäänen korkeus

Ketolainen¹,

Laakso²,

Simberg

2018

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Puheäänen korkeuteen (F0) vaikuttavat anatomisten ja biologisten tekijöiden lisäksi erilaiset sosiokulttuuriset ja behavioraaliset käyttäytymismallit. Äänenkäytön kannalta epäoptimaaliset mallit voivat johtaa jopa äänihäiriöihin. Tutkimus selvitti, mikä on suomea äidinkielenään puhuvien 16–17-vuotiaiden nuorten puheäänen korkeus ääneen luettaessa ja spontaanipuheessa. Lisäksi tutkittavilta mitattiin lukunopeus, F0 vokaalifonaatiossa, ja heiltä kerättiin äänenkorkeuden itsearvio. Tuloksia verrattiin Aino Sallinen-Kuparisen (1985) tutkimukseen, jossa havaittiin puhujien sukupuolen ja koulutustaustan vaikuttavan F0:an. Suomalaisnuorten puhekäyttäytyminen näyttäisi muuttuneen 30 vuodessa: Sallinen-Kuparisen (1985) tutkimuksessa ammattikoulutytöt puhuivat lukiotyttöjä korkeammalta ja sukupuolten välillä esiintyi eri puhetehtävissä eri strategioita, mutta tässä tutkimuksessa koulutustausta tai sukupuoli ei ollut yhteydessä äänenkorkeuden säätelyyn puheessa. Tyttöjen F0 oli luennassa 216 Hz ja spontaanipuheessa 213 Hz. Poikien F0 oli kansainvälisesti verrattuna matala: lukunäytteissä 101 Hz ja spontaanipuheessa 97 Hz. Mahdollisesti poikiin vaikuttaa täysi-ikäisyyden kynnyksellä sosiaalinen normi, joka arvostaa matalan puheäänen käyttöä. Matalaa puheääntä suosittiin myös itsearvioissa: valtaosa tutkittavista arvioi puhekorkeutensa keskivertoa matalammaksi.

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“…Judgments of the sexiness of men's voices are also generally associated with voices with lower fundamental frequencies (Daniel & McCabe, 1992). Men who were attempting to sound sexy (Tuomi & Fisher, 1979) or who were judged to be successful seducers (Anolli & Cicero, 2002) spoke with more pitch excursion and lowered their pitch over time, although Daniel and McCabe (1992) found that mid-pitched male voices were rated the sexiest. In contrast, women rated men's voices with high F0 and greater formant spacing as less attractive than those with low pitch and less formant spacing, possibly because these voices are associated with youthfulness in male voices (Feinberg, et al, 2005).…”

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“…The findings on sexiness and pitch in women's voices are also mixed. Some studies indicate that both men and women think that low pitch is sexy, because both lower the F0 of their voices when asked to sound seductive (Tuomi & Fisher, 1979) and speak in a lower pitch to attractive opposite-sex listeners (Hughes, Farley, & Rhodes, 2010), although Fracarro, et al, (2011 found that women raised their pitch instead. Farley, Hughes, & LaFayette (2013) found that women lowered voice pitch when speaking to their current romantic partners, and such voices were also judged to be sexier than those used when talking to friends.…”

Section: Formant Dispersion and Pitchmentioning

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Effects of Four Voice Qualities and Formant Dispersion on Perception of a Female Voice

Levitt

Lucas

2018

Psychology of Language and Communication

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Stimuli produced by a female speaker with four different voice qualities - modal, girlish, breathy and creaky - were manipulated to have more or less formant dispersion and were rated on four scales (dominance, attractiveness, sexiness and youthfulness) by men and women. Stimuli with less formant dispersion were rated more dominant and those with more dispersed formants were rated as less dominant. Breathy voice and girlish voice were rated more attractive and sexy. Stimuli with a creaky voice were rated less attractive and sexy, as were stimuli with less formant dispersion. Girlish voices and those with greater formant dispersion were rated as more youthful; creaky voices and those with less formant dispersion were rated as less youthful. There were also gender differences in ratings of attractiveness and youthfulness. Our results suggest that women’s voice qualities can affect perceptions of their attractiveness, sexiness and youthfulness. We discuss the implications of these findings in the context of social signaling.

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Characteristics of Simulated Sexy Voice

Cited by 33 publications

References 2 publications

Voice of Authority: Professionals Lower Their Vocal Frequencies When Giving Expert Advice

Voice of Authority: Professionals Lower Their Vocal Frequencies When Giving Expert Advice

16-17-vuotiaiden suomalaisnuorten puheäänen korkeus

Effects of Four Voice Qualities and Formant Dispersion on Perception of a Female Voice

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