October 20, 2009

MinnPost.com - Can a man talk like a woman?

Written by: Jessica Behnham

When men try to imitate the voice of a woman, they typically raise their voices to a higher pitch, and in the end, sound like men imitating women. Actually training a man to “sound” like a woman is enormously difficult and doesn’t have much to do with pitch, according to a paper by James Dembowski, a researcher at Texas Tech University in San Antonio. “While it is true that women tend to have higher voices than men, it takes much more than a high voice to make a woman sound womanly,” Dembowski wrote in a public version of his more technical paper, while will be presented next week at the Acoustical Society of America’s meeting in San Antonio, Texas.