从语音声学角度对儿童年龄感知的建模。

Modeling the perception of children's age from speech acoustics.

机构信息

Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA

School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA

出版信息

J Acoust Soc Am. 2018 May;143(5):EL361. doi: 10.1121/1.5037614.

DOI:10.1121/1.5037614

PMID:29857760

Abstract

Adult listeners were presented with /hVd/ syllables spoken by boys and girls ranging from 5 to 18 years of age. Half of the listeners were informed of the sex of the speaker; the other half were not. Results indicate that veridical age in children can be predicted accurately based on the acoustic characteristics of the talker's voice and that listener behavior is highly predictable on the basis of speech acoustics. Furthermore, listeners appear to incorporate assumptions about talker sex into their estimates of talker age, even when information about the talker's sex is not explicitly provided for them.

摘要

成年听众被呈现出由年龄在 5 至 18 岁的男孩和女孩说出的/hVd/音节。一半的听众被告知说话者的性别；另一半则没有。结果表明，基于说话者声音的声学特征，可以准确预测儿童的真实年龄，并且听众的行为在很大程度上可以根据语音的声学特征来预测。此外，即使没有为听众提供有关说话者性别的信息，他们似乎也会将对说话者性别的假设纳入对说话者年龄的估计中。