The Influence of the Visual Design of Spaces on Female Speakers’ Vocal Effort: An Exploratory Study
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Abstract
Vocal effort, as defined by Hunter et al, is a subjective perceptual phenomenon influenced by individual and environmental factors. This study investigates the impact of visual room design on vocal effort and measurable vocal demand response, which includes acoustic metrics such as sound pressure level, fundamental frequency ( f o ), and cepstral peak prominence. Twenty female participants performed speech tasks in two acoustically identical rooms that differed visually: an undecorated room (Room A) and a visually stimulating, classroom-like room (Room B). Participants reported significantly lower vocal effort on a visual analog scale in Room A compared with Room B ( P < 0.001), suggesting that visual design can modulate subjective vocal experience. However, acoustic measures of vocal demand response revealed no significant differences between the two environments. These findings reinforce the need to explore multimodal influences on vocal effort, emphasizing the role of visual environments in shaping perceptual experiences of voice use without altering acoustic output. Implications for experimental design and therapeutic interventions are discussed.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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