Voice Attractiveness Benjamin Weiss, Jürgen Trouvain, Melissa Barkat-Defradas, John Ohala To cite this version: Benjamin Weiss, Jürgen Trouvain, Melissa Barkat-Defradas, John Ohala. Voice Attractiveness: Stud- ies on Sexy, Likable, and Charismatic Speakers. 2020, 10.1007/978-981-15-6627-1. hal-02965919 HAL Id: hal-02965919 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02965919 Submitted on 13 Oct 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Metadata of the book that will be visualized in SpringerLink Publisher Name Springer Singapore Publisher Location Singapore Series ID 11951 SeriesTitle Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics Book ID 470006_1_En Book Title Voice Attractiveness Book DOI 10.1007/978-981-15-6627-1 Copyright Holder Name Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. Copyright Year 2021 Corresponding Editor Family Name Weiss Particle Given Name Benjamin Suffix Division Organization Technische Universität Berlin Address Berlin, Berlin, Germany Email [email protected] Editor Family Name Trouvain Particle Given Name Jürgen Suffix Division Organization Saarland University Address Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany Email [email protected] Editor Family Name Barkat-Defradas Particle Given Name Melissa Suffix Division Organization ISEM Address MONTPELLIER, France Email [email protected] Editor Family Name Ohala Particle Given Name John J. Suffix Division Organization International Computer Science Institute Address Berkeley, CA, USA Email [email protected] Layout: T1 Standard Book ID: 470006_1_En Book ISBN: 978-981-15-6626-4 Chapter No.: FM 1 Date: 18-9-2020 Time: 4:38 pm Page: 1/12 1 Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics 2 3 Series Editors 4 Daniel J. Hirst, CNRS Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France 5 Hongwei Ding, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 6 Shanghai, China 7 Qiuwu Ma, School of Foreign Languages, Tongji University, Shanghai, China PROOF ED Editor Proof NCORRECT U Layout: T1 Standard Book ID: 470006_1_En Book ISBN: 978-981-15-6626-4 Chapter No.: FM 1 Date: 18-9-2020 Time: 4:38 pm Page: 2/12 8 The series will publish studies in the general area of Speech Prosody with a 9 particular (but non-exclusive) focus on the importance of phonetics and phonology 10 in this field. The topic of speech prosody is today a far larger area of research than is 11 often realised. The number of papers on the topic presented at large international 12 conferences such as Interspeech and ICPhS is considerable and regularly 13 increasing. The proposed book series would be the natural place to publish 14 extended versions of papers presented at the Speech Prosody Conferences, in 15 particular, the papers presented in Special Sessions at the conference. This could 16 potentially involve the publication of 3 or 4 volumes every two years ensuring a 17 stable future for the book series. If such publications are produced fairly rapidly, 18 they will in turn provide a strong incentive for the organisation of other special 19 sessions at future Speech Prosody conferences. 20 More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11951 21 PROOF ED Editor Proof NCORRECT U Layout: T1 Standard Book ID: 470006_1_En Book ISBN: 978-981-15-6626-4 Chapter No.: FM 1 Date: 18-9-2020 Time: 4:38 pm Page: 3/12 • ü • 22 Benjamin Weiss J rgen Trouvain • 23 Melissa Barkat-Defradas 24 John J. Ohala 25 Editors 26 Voice Attractiveness PROOF 27 Studies on Sexy, Likable, and Charismatic 28 Speakers 3029 ED 31 Editor Proof NCORRECT 123 33 U Layout: T1 Standard Book ID: 470006_1_En Book ISBN: 978-981-15-6626-4 Chapter No.: FM 1 Date: 18-9-2020 Time: 4:38 pm Page: 4/12 343643 Editors 3744 Benjamin Weiss Jürgen Trouvain 3845 Technische Universität Berlin Saarland University 3946 Berlin, Germany Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany 4047 Melissa Barkat-Defradas John J. Ohala 4148 ISEM International Computer Science Institute 4249 Montpellier, France Berkeley, CA, USA 50 52 PROOF ED Editor Proof 53 5554 ISSN 2197-8700 ISSN 2197-8719 (electronic) 56 Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics 5758 ISBN 978-981-15-6626-4 ISBN 978-981-15-6627-1 (eBook) 59 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6627-1 60 61 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 62 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the 72 authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained 73 herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard 74 to jurisdictionalNCORRECT claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. 75 This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 76 The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, 77 SingaporeU Layout: T1 Standard Book ID: 470006_1_En Book ISBN: 978-981-15-6626-4 Chapter No.: FM 1 Date: 18-9-2020 Time: 4:38 pm Page: 5/12 78 Preface 79 At the Interspeech conference 2015, in Dresden, John (Ohala) asked Jürgen 80 (Trouvain) what he thinks about organizing a special sessionPROOF on attractive voices, 81 maybe for the next conference in this series. A former visiting researcher in 82 Berkeley, Melissa (Barkat-Defradas), had already expressed some ideas on such an 83 event on this topic. John has a long-standing interest in evolutionary aspects of 84 speech and voice, Melissa works in an interdisciplinary research team on all kinds 85 of aspects of evolution, and Jürgen has some background in paralinguistic char- 86 acteristics of speech. At the same conferenceED in Dresden, Jürgen introduced 87 Benjamin (Weiss) to John with Benjamin as the optimal complement to this team 88 since he has published several papers on social likeability of voices. 89 It was then at Interspeech in Stockholm 2017, that we were able to organize the 90 Editor Proof planned special session on voice attractiveness. We considered this event as the 91 perfect setting for presenting research dealing with many aspects: perceived vocal 92 preferences of men, women, and synthesized voices in well-defined social situa- 93 tions, acoustic correlates of voice attractiveness/pleasantness/charisma, interrela- 94 tions between vocal features and individual physical and physiological 95 characteristics, consequences for sexual selection, predictive value of voice for 96 personality and for other psychological traits, experimental definition of esthetic 97 standards for the vocal signal, cultural variation of voice attractiveness/pleasantness 98 and standards, and also the link between vocal pathology and vocal characteristics. 99 In Stockholm we agreed on a follow-up publication where the authors have more 100 space than in a conference paper with its strict limitations. Moreover, also those 101 colleagues could be reached that were not participants of this conference. 102 The special session was a success in our view. In total, we had nine accepted 103 contributions. Authors from six papers of this session are also aboard in this vol- 104 ume. In addition to these, there are ten further contributions for this publication, 105 having a total of seventeen papers when we add the introductory chapter. It is our 106 belief that both collections, the nine conference papers, and the seventeen articles in 107 this volume,NCORRECT can provide a useful overview on the state-of-the-art research on voice 108 attractiveness, voice likeability, and vocal charisma. We also hope that these studies U v Layout: T1 Standard Book ID: 470006_1_En Book ISBN: 978-981-15-6626-4 Chapter No.: FM 1 Date: 18-9-2020 Time: 4:38 pm Page: 6/12 vi Preface 109 represent a fruitful fundament for further thoughts and investigations of an exciting 110 field of speech and voice research. 111 As many book projects of this size, the editing process took longer than 112 expected. This delay is mainly but note entirely due to health reasons of some of the 113 editors. We would like to thank all authors for their patience and the publishing 114 house for the provided support. 116117 Berlin, Germany Benjamin Weiss 118119 Saarbrücken, Germany Jürgen Trouvain 120121 Montpellier, France Melissa Barkat-Defradas 122124 Berkeley, USA John J. Ohala 123 April 2020 125 PROOF ED Editor Proof NCORRECT U Layout: T1 Standard Book ID: 470006_1_En Book ISBN: 978-981-15-6626-4 Chapter No.: FM 1 Date: 18-9-2020 Time: 4:38 pm Page: 7/12 126 Contents 127128 Part I General Considerations PROOF 130129 1 Voice Attractiveness: Concepts, Methods, and Data ...........