Voices carry large amounts of socially relevant information on persons, much like 'auditory
faces'. Following Bruce and Young (1986)'s seminal model of face perception, we propose …

Financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive adults have been documented in the
labor market, in social transactions in everyday life, and in studies involving experimental …

Unlike general e-business, e-commerce livestreaming innovatively enables anchors to use
instant social functions to communicate with viewers and present products in more vivid …

On hearing a novel voice, listeners readily form personality impressions of that speaker.
Accurate or not, these impressions are known to affect subsequent interactions; yet the …

Some combinations of musical notes are consonant (pleasant), whereas others are
dissonant (unpleasant), a distinction central to music. Explanations of consonance in terms …

Each year, researchers and technologists are bringing the vision of the Metaverse, which is
predicted to be the future of the internet, closer to becoming a reality. People will spend most …

Vocal fry is speech that is low pitched and creaky sounding, and is increasingly common
among young American females. Some argue that vocal fry enhances speaker labor market …

There are a number of psychological phenomena in which dramatic emotional responses
are evoked by seemingly innocuous perceptual stimuli. A well known example is the …

Both faces and voices are rich in socially-relevant information, which humans are
remarkably adept at extracting, including a person's identity, age, gender, affective state …

Purpose To determine the relative importance of acoustic parameters (fundamental
frequency [F0], formant frequencies [FFs], aperiodicity, and spectrum level [SL]) on voice …