The field of nonverbal communication (NVC) has a long history involving many cue
modalities, including face, voice, body, touch, and interpersonal space; different levels of …

While humans have developed a sophisticated and unique system of verbal auditory
communication, they also share a more common and evolutionarily important nonverbal …

Can AI-generated voices be designed to improve product and brand perceptions? Akin to
human voices that evoke mental images in a listener even without visual cues, artificially …

Advances in deep learning have introduced a new wave of voice synthesis tools, capable of
producing audio that sounds as if spoken by a target speaker. If successful, such tools in the …

What does it mean to be (seen as) human? Ten studies explore this age-old question and
show that gender is a critical feature of perceiving humanness, being more central to …

As voice assistant usage continues to grow, their homogeneity becomes even more
problematic with the UNESCO report,“I'd Blush if I could” showing that designing only …

Gender categorization and stereoty** can lead to discrimination. Researchers have
mostly studied cisgender, gender-conforming individuals as the targets when examining …

Despite the wide body of literature available on the sound symbolism of food, the role of
timbre in influencing food perception is yet underexplored. Given the shared gender …

Avatar identification is one of the most promising research areas in games user research.
Greater identification with one's avatar has been associated with improved outcomes in the …

Objective Determine if acoustic measurements exist that are predictive of Auditory-
Perceptual Assessment (APA) of gender expression in the voice of transgender, nonbinary …