Identification of Children's Gender and Age by Listeners

Amir, Ofer; Engel, Merav; Shabtai, Esther; Amir, Noam

doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2011.06.001

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“…This is consistent with findings reported by Amir et al (2012). Informing listeners about the sex of the speaker reduced the discrepancy slightly, although this information did not lead to substantially improved age estimation.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…One exception is a recent study by Amir et al (2012) who investigated age and gender recognition of a sample of Hebrew-speaking children between 8 and 18 years. Age recognition accuracy (±2 years) was fairly low (40% for sentences, 35% for isolated vowels) with the lowest performance for the oldest group where there was a tendency to systematically underestimate the perceived age in female voices.…”

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Perception of speaker age in children’s voices

Assmann

Barreda

Nearey

2013

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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To study the perception of speaker age in children’s voices, adult listeners were presented with vowels in /hVd/ syllables either in isolation or in a carrier sentence, and used a graphical slider to register their estimate of the speaker’s age. The data showed a moderate correlation of perceived age and chronological age. Age estimation accuracy was fairly constant across age up to about age 11, but there was a systematic tendency for listeners to underestimate the ages of older girls. This tendency was actually enhanced when listeners were informed of the speaker’s sex. Age estimation accuracy was higher for syllables embedded in a carrier sentence. Linear regression analyses were conducted using acoustic measurements of the stimuli to predict perceived age. These analyses indicated significant contributions of fundamental frequency, duration, vowel category, formant frequencies, as well as certain measures related to the voicing source. The persistent underestimation of age for older girls, and the effect knowledge of speaker sex has on this underestimation suggest that acoustic information is combined with expectations regarding speakers of a given sex in arriving at an estimate of speaker age.

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confidence: 91%

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Perception of speaker age in children’s voices

Assmann

Barreda

Nearey

2013

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…Previous studies (Hillenbrand and Clark, 2009;Assmann and Nearey 2011) have shown that listeners can identify the sex of the speaker more accurately from sentences than from single syllables. Amir et al (2012) found higher accuracy for the perception of age in children's voices based on complete sentences rather than isolated vowels, sustained tokens of /a/ and /i/. In the present study we compared hVd syllables spoken in isolation with those same syllables embedded in a carrier sentence.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…However, few studies have examined children's voices. One exception is a recent study by Amir et al (2012) who found better than chance accuracy for age identification in a sample of speech (vowels and sentences) recorded from 120 children, including boys and girls from six age groups (ages 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18). Age recognition accuracy (defined in terms of age categories spanning 2 years) was fairly low (40% for sentences, 35% for vowels) with the lowest performance for the oldest group where there was a tendency to systematically underestimate the perceived age in female voices.…”

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Perception of speaker age in children's voices

Assmann¹,

Barreda²,

Nearey³

2013

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

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To study the perception of speaker age in children's voices, adult listeners were presented with vowels in /hVd/ syllables, either in isolation or in a carrier sentence. Listeners used a graphical slider to register their estimate of the speaker's age. The data showed a moderate correlation of perceived age and chronological age. For isolated syllables, age estimation accuracy was fairly constant across age up to about age 11, but there was a systematic tendency for listeners to underestimate the ages of older girls. This error pattern was actually exaggerated when listeners were informed of the speaker's sex. Age estimation accuracy was higher for syllables embedded in a carrier sentence, and knowledge of the speaker's sex had little effect. Linear regression analyses were conducted using acoustic measurements of the stimuli to predict perceived age. These analyses indicated significant contributions of fundamental frequency, duration, vowel category, formant frequencies as well as certain measures related to the voicing source. The persistent underestimation of age for older girls, and the effect knowledge of speaker sex has on this underestimation suggest that acoustic information is combined with expectations regarding speakers of a given sex in arriving at an estimate of speaker age.

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Körperinstrument Stimme

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Identification of Children's Gender and Age by Listeners

Cited by 17 publications

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Perception of speaker age in children’s voices

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