Who Finds This Voice Attractive? A Large-Scale Experiment Using In-the-Wild Data
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| author | Suda, Hitoshi Watanabe, Aya Takamichi, Shinnosuke |
| author_facet | Suda, Hitoshi Watanabe, Aya Takamichi, Shinnosuke |
| contents | This paper introduces CocoNut-Humoresque, an open-source large-scale speech likability corpus that includes speech segments and their per-listener likability scores. Evaluating voice likability is essential to designing preferable voices for speech systems, such as dialogue or announcement systems. In this study, we let 885 listeners rate 1800 speech segments of a wide range of speakers regarding their likability. When constructing the corpus, we also collected the multiple speaker attributes: genders, ages, and favorite YouTube videos. Therefore, the corpus enables the large-scale statistical analysis of voice likability regarding both speaker and listener factors. This paper describes the construction methodology and preliminary data analysis to reveal the gender and age biases in voice likability. In addition, the relationship between the likability and two acoustic features, the fundamental frequencies and the x-vectors of given utterances, is also investigated. |
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| spellingShingle | Who Finds This Voice Attractive? A Large-Scale Experiment Using In-the-Wild Data Suda, Hitoshi Watanabe, Aya Takamichi, Shinnosuke Audio and Speech Processing Sound This paper introduces CocoNut-Humoresque, an open-source large-scale speech likability corpus that includes speech segments and their per-listener likability scores. Evaluating voice likability is essential to designing preferable voices for speech systems, such as dialogue or announcement systems. In this study, we let 885 listeners rate 1800 speech segments of a wide range of speakers regarding their likability. When constructing the corpus, we also collected the multiple speaker attributes: genders, ages, and favorite YouTube videos. Therefore, the corpus enables the large-scale statistical analysis of voice likability regarding both speaker and listener factors. This paper describes the construction methodology and preliminary data analysis to reveal the gender and age biases in voice likability. In addition, the relationship between the likability and two acoustic features, the fundamental frequencies and the x-vectors of given utterances, is also investigated. |
| title | Who Finds This Voice Attractive? A Large-Scale Experiment Using In-the-Wild Data |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing Sound |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04270 |