Voice Passing : a Non-Binary Voice Gender Prediction System for evaluating Transgender voice transition
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| author | Doukhan, David Devauchelle, Simon Girard-Monneron, Lucile Ruz, Mía Chávez Chaddouk, V. Wagner, Isabelle Rilliard, Albert |
| author_facet | Doukhan, David Devauchelle, Simon Girard-Monneron, Lucile Ruz, Mía Chávez Chaddouk, V. Wagner, Isabelle Rilliard, Albert |
| contents | This paper presents a software allowing to describe voices using a continuous Voice Femininity Percentage (VFP). This system is intended for transgender speakers during their voice transition and for voice therapists supporting them in this process. A corpus of 41 French cis- and transgender speakers was recorded. A perceptual evaluation allowed 57 participants to estimate the VFP for each voice. Binary gender classification models were trained on external gender-balanced data and used on overlapping windows to obtain average gender prediction estimates, which were calibrated to predict VFP and obtained higher accuracy than $F_0$ or vocal track length-based models. Training data speaking style and DNN architecture were shown to impact VFP estimation. Accuracy of the models was affected by speakers' age. This highlights the importance of style, age, and the conception of gender as binary or not, to build adequate statistical representations of cultural concepts. |
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| spellingShingle | Voice Passing : a Non-Binary Voice Gender Prediction System for evaluating Transgender voice transition Doukhan, David Devauchelle, Simon Girard-Monneron, Lucile Ruz, Mía Chávez Chaddouk, V. Wagner, Isabelle Rilliard, Albert Audio and Speech Processing Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning Sound This paper presents a software allowing to describe voices using a continuous Voice Femininity Percentage (VFP). This system is intended for transgender speakers during their voice transition and for voice therapists supporting them in this process. A corpus of 41 French cis- and transgender speakers was recorded. A perceptual evaluation allowed 57 participants to estimate the VFP for each voice. Binary gender classification models were trained on external gender-balanced data and used on overlapping windows to obtain average gender prediction estimates, which were calibrated to predict VFP and obtained higher accuracy than $F_0$ or vocal track length-based models. Training data speaking style and DNN architecture were shown to impact VFP estimation. Accuracy of the models was affected by speakers' age. This highlights the importance of style, age, and the conception of gender as binary or not, to build adequate statistical representations of cultural concepts. |
| title | Voice Passing : a Non-Binary Voice Gender Prediction System for evaluating Transgender voice transition |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning Sound |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15176 |