@InProceedings{Weiss2017_256,
author = {Benjamin Weiss and Anabell Hacker and Cleopatra Moshona and Frederic Rudawski and Matthias Ruhland},
booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2017},
title = {Studying vocal social attractiveness by re-synthesis – results from two student projects applying acoustic morphing with Tandem- Straight},
year = {2017},
editor = {Jürgen Trouvain and Ingmar Steiner and Bernd Möbius},
month = mar,
pages = {316--323},
publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
abstract = {Acoustic analysis and synthesis experiments provide meaningful methods
to study vocal processes of social cognition. Common attributions and evaluations of
person’s speech include personality, emotions, and social attitudes. Recent advances
in speech coding allow improving the synthesis methodology by defining valid
parameter target values without much manual analysis effort. In two student projects,
the de-factor standard for speech coding/morphing, Tandem-Straight, was applied to
conduct experiments on vocally manifested social cognition processes. Hypothesisbased
stimuli were produced on four, respectively five steps in a bi-directional
fashion. The evaluations took about 30 min. for each participant. Each group
conducted a qualitative analysis for stimulus selection and a quantitative pre-test to
obtain social evaluations for hypothesis formulation. During this preparation, both
groups decided to select female speakers, as only these provided sufficient variations
in acoustics and social ratings. Results show an impact of a darker spectrum on
liking ratings for 47 participants, as well as an effect of different, eventually lower, F0 on dominance attribution for 51 participants.},
isbn = {978-3-959080-92-7},
issn = {0940-6832},
keywords = {Poster},
url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2017_316_323.pdf},
}