Do women have greater voice recognition than men?
I’m watching a 20/20 slot about a 40 year old woman who pretended to be a sick, very, very sick 14 year old boy. Don’t know why yet. Money, I imagine but I put in on hold to type this.
She had a BUNCH of people convinced that she was a 14 year old boy. They’re showing only men discussing this. They described his voice as very androgynous. It went on for a year, I think.
One of the men had spoken to “Tony’s mother,” too, several times, which was the woman being herself.
The guy’s wife had also spoken to “Tony,” many times.
However, about 9 months into it the the wife spoke to “Tony’s mother” for the first time, got off the phone and turned around and said to her husband, “You’re going to tell me that all of this time you didn’t recognize that it was the same voice?”
So, I just asked this question. I shall resume the episode now.
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I just found out a week ago that the person who played the voice of Ash Ketchum in the Pokemon cartoons is a woman.
That took, what, 18 years?
@Dutchess_III, that conclusion is a bit of a reach.
Given that Nancy Cartwright has been the voice of Bart Simpson, it seems women can imitate adolescent boys.
But a single anecdotal incident on 20/20 doesn’t correspond to any greater innate ability of women to discern voices.
I did not say women can’t imitate male or adolescent voices.
I was asking if you talk to someone that you think is a 14 year old boy, then turn around and talk to the “mother” in the same conversation, would women be more likely to recognize that it’s the same voice?
Probably not, musicians with perfect pitch don’t seem to favor male or female. I have horrible pitch recognition yet I can still easily pick out which actors are doing cartoon voice overs. What may be different is the attention to tone (not in the musical sense) and speech style. That would not surprise me but who knows, perhaps there is some research on the subject somewhere.
I can’t answer the question, but there’s a movie that sounds like the same story. I enjoyed it a lot. It’s the movie that made me appreciate Robin Williams, because he wasn’t playing the manic character “Robin Williams”.
The Night Listener
I think women are more suspicious and pay attention more to things like that. I think men can certainly hear as well as women, but they don’t look for the lie like women do.
Studies show women are much better at recognizing facial expressions indicating emotion than men. The men see just fine, but they either don’t give a shit, or aren’t trained to notice.
We notice but don’t give a shit
^^Are you making fun of me? Or, agreeing with me?
Agreeing and poking a little fun.
@Call_Me_Jay Yes, later in the program they said there was a movie made about it that starred Robin Williams.
I saw The Night Listener when it was in the theater. It was a good movie, I thought. Sad, but good.
I think it’s a generalization that might tend to be true. More often than not, women seem to be more commonly sensitive to more subtle personal observations than many men are. Colors, smells, body language, behavior, hinting. I wouldn’t be surprised if voices was another such area.
Hahaha, given who asked this all I read was “women – greater – than – men” said in a dalek voice
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