Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Naturalness in Speakers of Varying Gender Identities.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how speech naturalness relates to masculinity–femininity and gender identification (accuracy and reaction time) for cisgender male and female speakers as well as transmasculine and transfeminine speakers. Method: Stimuli included spontaneous spee...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 63; no. 7; pp. 2054 - 2070 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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