South West Undergraduate Conference 2026
First Impressions of Social Class: Face vs. Voice
Paige Woods & Eric Machiwenyika, University of Plymouth
Voice Recordings
Human voices were collected from social media (e.g., YouTube). These were short (~1s) audio clips of people saying different greetings such as “Good morning!” or “Hello everyone!”. All audio clips were normalised for RMS amplitude using a PRAAT script and were saved in the uncompressed WAV format. The identities represented in this set varied in age and nationality, with all recordings in English.
Female Rich Voices
Male Rich Voices
Female Poor Voices
Male Poor Voices
Example Trial
