Nafiseh Taghva

The Effects of Loudness and Smiling on Timbre Features: Implications for Charismatic Voices in Mandarin, German and Danish

This study investigated the effects of loudness and smiling on timbre of speech in different languages and genders. A group of native speakers of Mandarin, German, and Danish (10 participants per language) were recorded while blocks of 10 sentences in 2x3 block-wise randomized loudness and smiling c…