Recent research has documented a variety of ovulatory cues in humans, and in many nonhuman species, the vocal channel provides cues of reproductive state. We collected two sets of vocal samples from 69 normally ovulating women: one set during the follicular (high-fertility) phase of the cycle and one set during the luteal (low-fertility) phase, with ovulation confirmed by luteinizing hormone tests. In these samples we measured fundamental frequency (pitch), formant dispersion, jitter, shimmer, harmonics-to-noise ratio and speech rate. When speaking a simple introductory sentence, women's pitch increased during high- as compared with low-fertility, and this difference was the greatest for women whose voices were recorded on the two highest fertility days within the fertile window (the 2 days just before ovulation). This pattern did not occur when the same women produced vowels. The high- versus low-fertility difference in pitch was associated with the approach of ovulation and not menstrual onset, thus representing, to our knowledge, the first research to show a specific cyclic fertility cue in the human voice. We interpret this finding as evidence of a fertility-related enhancement of femininity consistent with other research documenting attractiveness-related changes associated with ovulation. Source (Note: small sample size)
So, from a biological, evolutionary standpoint, men would find women whose voices had the greatest pitch disparity between vowels and consonants the "most sexy".
I suppose the AI content creators are already aware of this and are exploiting it.
The AI creators have a very good idea of what is visually responsive. Thats one way you can spot the fakes, they're too perfect.
ReplyDeleteSo you are saying the higher the pitch of a woman's voice the sexier it sounds to men? Doubtful. A screeching harpie is anything but sexy. IMO. But I tell you Jessica Rabbit could call me in like a coyote from a mile away. Just saying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ATdc7cFk4
ReplyDeleteThe way I read the summary of the paper is that the more see-saw in pitch between vowels (which are often the longest duration phoneme) and does not rise in pitch and the consonants (which are often short and abrupt) which do rise in pitch.
DeleteNot the total word. Just the consonants.
So! Science has finally pin pointed the source of the Sirens power to call ships onto to rocks. (Little classical Greek tale reference there.)
ReplyDelete