Do You Sound Tall?

You can tell a lot about a person based on how they speak. But can voice alone tell you things about a person like their height and weight? Laci looks at the connection between a person's appearance and the way they sound.

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Do people of different races have different voices?
http://io9.com/5928125/do-people-of-different-races-have-different-voices
"Is there such thing as a Caucasian, Asian, or African voice? And could you actually identify someone's race just by listening to him or her? Admittedly, the whole notion of race is nebulous to say the least - it's a concept that blends physiological and social differences indiscriminately."

Big Voices, Big Bodies
http://healthyliving.msn.com/health-wellness/bi-voices-big-bodies
"Here's a question that came up over dinner the other night.
Is it true that opera singers are usually overweight or obese because their excess weight helps them become great singers?"

Say What? Your Voice Tells People How Tall You Are
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131207-sounds-voices-height-tall-short-science-health/?rptregcta=reg_free_np&rptregcampaign=20131016_rw_membership_r1p_us_se_w#close-modal
"Past experiments have also suggested that people can discern height from voice. The new analysis not only confirms this ability but also points to what may be clueing in listeners: the sound produced in the lower airway below the Adam's apple-or the lump of cartilage that protrudes from the larynx."

Do you sound tall or small?
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2013/12/17/do-you-sound-tall-or-small/
"Your voice might help listeners determine your approximate height without seeing you, according to a new study."

Do obesity and weight loss affect vocal function?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21491357
"Obesity may be associated with increased tissue bulk in the laryngeal airway, neck, and chest wall, and as such may affect vocal function. Eight obese and eight nonobese adults participated in this study; the obese participants underwent bariatric surgical procedures."

Listeners can distinguish voices of tall versus short people, study finds
https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/26246.aspx
"Our voice can reveal a lot about us: our age, our gender, and now - it seems - our height as well. A new study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Los Angeles, and Indiana University found that listeners can accurately determine the relative heights of speakers just by listening to them talk."

Acoustic features mediating height estimation from human speech
http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/134/5/10.1121/1.4830873
"The current experiment was aimed at providing the first direct evidence regarding the role of subglottal resonances in height discrimination."

Speaker Race Identification From Acoustic Cues in the Vocal Signal
http://jslhr.asha.org/cgi/content/abstract/37/4/738
"One-second acoustic samples were extracted from the mid-portion of sustained /a/ vowels produced by 50 black and 50 white adult males."

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