Abstract
When listening to someone’s voice what duration of stimulus is required to tell whether the person speaking is a man or a woman? Previous research studied this using voiced speech [D. R. R. Smith, Acta Psychologica 148, 81–90 (2014)]. The current study expanded this analysis by investigating what duration of stimulus is required to discriminate speaker sex when listening to whispered speech. Psychometric functions were collected plotting percent correct discrimination that a man or woman spoke, as a function of very brief vowel segment durations (up to 60 ms), for both voiced and whispered vowels. Results show that speaker sex discrimination performance is significantly impaired for whispered vowels, as compared to voiced vowels, for all durations tested. These findings are interpreted in terms of the impoverished cues to speaker sex in whispered compared to voiced speech.
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