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dc.contributor.authorCain Porter, Courtney
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-09T18:50:43Z
dc.date.available2012-07-09T18:50:43Z
dc.date.issued2012-07-09
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/15065
dc.descriptionThe voice is a fundamental method of communication and as such, helps in our efforts to define our identity. Projection of the appropriate voice is crucially important to transgender individuals in transition for acceptance as their identified gender. This study attempts to identify and examine the relationship between acoustic measurements of voice quality and the perception of speaker gender from audio recordings, including the male-to-female transgender voice, based on several acoustic properties that have been identified by previous studies. Recordings of female, male and transgender voices were acoustically analyzed for properties relating to differences in voice quality between men and women. Listeners then identified the gender of the recorded voices, with the intention of evaluating which voices are perceived as either male or female along with a corresponding rating of masculinity or femininity. What acoustic measurements of voice quality cue listeners to gender and do they correlate with gender perception?en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectvoice qualityen_US
dc.subjecttransgender voiceen_US
dc.subjectbreathinessen_US
dc.subjectacoustic measurementsen_US
dc.subjectgender perceptionen_US
dc.titleVoice Quality And Gender Identification: Acoustic And Perceptual Analysisen_US
dc.date.defence2012-06-19
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Human Communication Disordersen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinerN/Aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorDr. Joy Armsonen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr. Joy Armsonen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerGlen Nowellen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorDr. Michael Kiefteen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalReceiveden_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
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