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Telephone Transmission and Earwitnesses: Performance on Voice Parades Controlled for Voice Similarity.


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Article

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Authors

McDougall, Kirsty 
Hudson, Toby 

Abstract

The effect of telephone transmission on a listener's ability to recognise a speaker in a voice parade is investigated. A hundred listeners (25 per condition) heard 1 of 5 'target' voices, then returned a week later for a voice parade. The 4 conditions were: target exposure and parade both at studio quality; exposure and parade both at telephone quality; studio exposure with telephone parade, and vice versa. Fewer correct identifications followed from telephone exposure and parade (64%) than from studio exposure and parade (76%). Fewer still resulted for studio exposure/telephone parade (60%) and, dramatically, only 32% for telephone exposure/studio parade. Certain speakers were identified more readily than others across all conditions. Confidence ratings reflected this effect of speaker, but not the effect of exposure/parade condition.

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Keywords

Adolescent, Female, Forensic Sciences, Humans, Male, Phonetics, Recognition, Psychology, Sound Spectrography, Speech Perception, Telephone, Voice Quality, Young Adult

Journal Title

Phonetica

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Journal ISSN

0031-8388
1423-0321

Volume Title

72

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Sponsorship
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/F028814/1)
ESRC (RES-000-23-1248)
ESRC; British Academy