Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Naturalness in Speakers of Varying Gender Identities.

Conclusions Perceptual speech naturalness for both transfeminine and transmasculine speakers is strongly associated with gender cues in spontaneous speech. Training to align a speaker's voice with their gender identity may concurrently improve perceptual speech naturalness. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12543158. PMID: 32598195 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - June 28, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Merritt B, Bent T Tags: J Speech Lang Hear Res Source Type: research

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