Voice Passing : a Non-Binary Voice Gender Prediction System for evaluating Transgender voice transition

arXiv:2404.15176v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: This paper presents a software allowing to describe voices using a continuous Voice Femininity Percentage (VFP). This system is intended for transgender speakers during their voice transition and for voice therapists supporting them in this process. A corpus of 41 French cis- and transgender speakers was recorded. A perceptual evaluation allowed 57 participants to estimate the VFP for each voice. Binary gender classification models were trained on external gender-balanced data and used on overlapping windows …

abstract arxiv binary continuous cs.hc cs.lg cs.sd eess.as french gender paper prediction process software speakers them therapists transgender transition type voice voices