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Acoustic correlates of masculinity in voices of Lebanese women with Reinke's edema

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Women with Reinke's edema (WR) complain of a masculine sounding voice. Their voice is interesting to study the gender stereotypes of the human voice. Our objective is to understand the role played by various phonetic cues in the gender ambiguity of the voices of WR. We compared their acoustic parameters to those of normal voices of men (MN) and women (WN). To relate our findings to the complaints of WR, we verified that the differences observed were related to selfevaluation of gender and to perception of gender by naïve listeners. The studied language is Lebanese. In the production experiment, we asked 56 speakers (28 WN, 18 MN and 10 WR) to produce 3 vowels /a/, /i/ and /u/. The acoustic parameters that distinguish the vocal quality of WR are: low F0, low H1-H2, high entropy of the return times and high subharmonic to harmonic ratio. The vowel space seems reduced in WR. In the self-evaluation task, participants judged their voice and personality separately on a masculinity/femininity scale. WR judge their voice as being masculine and their personality as being feminine. Preliminary results from the perceptual experiment confirm that gender is more ambiguously perceived in WR voices.
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hal-01507720 , version 1 (13-04-2017)

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Nayla Matar, Cristel Portes, Leonardo Lancia, Thierry Legou, Fabienne Baider. Acoustic correlates of masculinity in voices of Lebanese women with Reinke's edema. International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP) 10, May 2014, Cologne, Germany. pp.273-276. ⟨hal-01507720⟩
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