交互式生物反馈提高跨男性说话者声音男性化

SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES

PI: Cara Stepp, Associate Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, ENG
Co-PI: Lauren Tracy, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, MED
Track: Hariri Institute for Computing

What is the Challenge?
Acoustic parameters can target voice modification sessions to alter the perception of gender of transmasculine speakers meaningfully. Additionally, novel speech resynthesis techniques can be used to modulate speech parameters of transmasculine speakers before and following voice masculinization.

What is the Solution?
To address this problem, PI Cara Stepp, alongside her CO-PI, Lauren Tracy plan to create a set of voice samples with specific modulated speech characteristics. These characteristics can be used in an auditory-perceptual experiment amidst unfamiliar listeners to identify which speech parameters are most important for gender perception. The results of the auditory-perceptual experiment can be used to develop an online voice modification module that transmasculine speakers can use to complete targeted voice modification sessions in the comfort and privacy of their homes through instantaneous biofeedback.

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