Weighty voices and shaky evidence: A critique
Jordan R. Cohen, Thomas H. Crystal, A. S. House, Edward P. Neuburg · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1980
In a series of recent papers, claims have been made that the human voice carries information that is available to a listener for the identification of certain physical characteristics of the talker. In this note these claims are challenged, both by a reanalysis of some previous data using more-standard statistical tests, and by an experiment in which equally significant results were obtained by guessing ’’talker’’ weights without listening to speech samples.