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Visual biases in evaluation of speakers’ and singers’ voice type by cis and trans listeners
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Description: In this study, people hear the voices of different actors, and rate the type of voice they have on a scale ranging from bass to soprano. In a second phase, they watch the silent videos (of the same clips) and have to perform the same task based on visual cues alone. In a third phase, they are presented with the full AV stimuli and do the same task again. We found that ratings differed relative to the first phase, indicative of biases that people had given the actors' body size, shape, and face. Furthermore, this study was conducted for cis-participants and trans-participants in two different batches recruited from Prolific.
A singer’s or speaker’s Fach (voice type) should be appraised based on acoustic cues characterizing their voice. Instead, in practice, it is often influenced by the individual’s physical appearance. This is especially distressful for transgender people who may be excluded from formal singing because of perceived mismatch between their voice and appearance. To eventually break down these visual bia…
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