[Grads] CCRMA voice actor recruitment

[Matt Wright]

Greetings CCRMA graduate students!

Dan Bowling (cc:) is a CCRMA collaborator based in the Med school (Psychiatry) putting together a database of recordings of emotion-laden (“affective”) speech.  He is recording with both microphones and electroglottograph, a very nifty piece of technology that is essentially an electromagnetic pickup for your larynx.  It produces a somewhat noisy signal that’s “the sound of your vocal cords,”  perfectly matching the pitch and amplitude of your voice, but unaffected by all the timbre/vowel/consonant shaping/filtering done by your tongue/lips/palate/etc.

It takes 60-90 minutes, in the CCRMA Listening Room.  You’ll get a single scientifically-chosen sentence (mine was “there are four drawers in the cabinet”) that you must deliver convincingly with 16 different emotions. 

You get paid, it’s fun, and bonus, as part of your session, Dan will also let you record anything your larynx can produce, listen back, get the recordings, etc.

Results so far indicate a strong positive correlation between being a CCRMA person and being good at this task, so Dan is directly recruiting CCRMA grads.  Unfortunately at this time he specifically needs native speakers of North American English.

Please let him know (cc:) if you’re interested.

Thanks,
-Matt

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