Univ. of Tokyo paper: why your recorded voice feels eerie — a vocal uncanny valley
ssh4net · x · 2026-10-18
A paper by Marino Kimura and Yuko Yotsumoto (University of Tokyo) studies the auditory traits of the "own voice." People perceive their recorded voice differently from their actively spoken voice, and this discomfort may correspond to the floor of the uncanny valley curve: on the similarity-to-self axis, the recorded voice sits in the valley while one's active own voice sits at the peak beyond it. The study systematically evaluates previously proposed filter-based remedies (step, bandpass, low-pass) via pairwise similarity experiments, revealing notable individual differences across subjects.
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