Influence of Personal Traits on Impressions of One's Own Voice

The aim of this paper is to identify personal traits, e.g., age group, gender, personality traits, and values, that influence the perception of one's own voice. Previous studies have shown that the perception of one's own voice is different from those of others. Although studies have also shown that the perception of one's own voice is associated with the listener's personal traits, only a limited personal trait was considered in previous studies. In this paper, a large-scale subjective experiment using 162 Japanese participants was conducted to evaluate the perceptual voice impressions of their own and others' voices. We next analyzed relationships between the obtained voice impressions and their personal traits. As a result, we found that the perception of one's own voice was affected by multiple personal traits, such reported in the previous studies, and habits of listening to their own voices, which were not considered in previous studies.