title: A comment on women's speech and its synthesis.
abstract: A brief update of sex differences in voice characteristics points to the style and linguistic convention in residual differences after processes of normalisation in phonetic studies and phonetic realizations in read speech as these affect speech synthesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK. s.whiteside@sheffield.ac.uk
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Whiteside
mesh_terms: D003143:Communication Devices for People with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D012737:Sex Factors; D013060:Speech