Towards synthesis of speaker age: A perceptual study with natural, synthesized and resynthesized stimuli.
As a first step towards synthesis of speaker age the hypothesis that spectral cues may be more important for age perception than F0 and duration was tested in a pilot listening experiment with male speaker stimuli consisting of natural, synthesized and resynthesized isolated words. Results indicate that spectral information is dominant over pitch as cues for age. Slow speech rate also seems to be
