Voice Inflection

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I'm glad that you found the videos, too. I look forward to watching the third.


I would love to help you bring spirituality into your life... which is redundant if you think about it, lol. It is one of my "special interests", after all. It's everything.

I've sent you a PM for this but you didn't yet realize it. Once you have logged in you'll find a link to your private messages in the upper right corner of the page.

Some Aspies do seem to have a tendency to 'mirror' a person whose talking to them. We can be quite good imitators, really, sometimes without realizing it. I have found myself doing this from time to time. You also find this sort of thing with Tourettes.

I didn't even know what a voice inflection was so I literally looked up in a dictionary. Yes I'm old fashioned. No I don't mind.

From what I've been told I've got a half-decent voice inflection since I won an award for best presentation at a chemistry conference.

I absolutely do this. The other person's mannerisms, gestures, etc.

I'm gonna give a voice sample and you guys can just dissect it as you see fit ...

https://vocaroo.com/i/s04CVv9TTCJD

Good idea. For me you are a little bit difficult to understand except that I heard a lot of fun just from the beginning that I liked.
My problem with this was the continously changing speed of your voice between extremely streched words (voice inflectio-o-o-n') followed by some ten words a second passages once you don't have to search for the words. I had to hear it multiple times to get the fast passages which were quite difficult for me to follow. But I'm not a native speaker and still unable to distinguish the dialects.

Clearly you did listen to it but as I said in the recording, I'm not familiar with the word nor do I know if I'm even pronouncing it correctly ... I just speak normal English and have a fairly clear diction

Hey, you are the native speaker! I would always pronounce it the same way as 'infection' or 'detection' aso. But the internet has also easy ways to find out, i.e. you can ask leo https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/inflection or dict.cc http://www.dict.cc/?s=inflection for this.

Sounds like regular old American English to me. No particular regional signature.

I think of "inflection" as meaning your "tone of voice" (what emotion you're putting into it).
But the orginal poster is using inflection to mean "dialect". Not the same thing at all.. Not sure who is right.

I take inflection to mean something counter to monotone. A irregular sine wave of the voice going up and the voice going down while speaking rather than a straight line of a monotone voice.

Is my understanding of the word incorrect?

If understanding vocal tone is difficult, it might be hard to distinguish the two. A good example would be the rising tone at the end of a sentence, common to Aussie and some Scots/Irish dialects, which can sound like the speaker is asking a question to speakers of other dialects.

There might be a way to get some information. As you might know, at universities, the science of hearing and vision comes under the category title of "psychophysics". This is a division in the overall umbrella of Psychology departments (usually). Any half-decent psychophysics division will have a set up for measuring sound detection at high frequencies (in the parlance of psychophysics, this is called 'signal detection').

I suggest you use Google to find which nearby university teaches psychophysics papers to graduate level. Also ask who is the professor or associate who is in charge of psychophysics tuition.

Once you have identified the one nearest to you that teaches the discipline and have the name, you have some options. You could contact him or her directly and ask if you could arrange to be a subject for signal detection at high frequencies; or if there is anyone doing a thesis related to this looking for subjects in your age group, could he perhaps suggest how you might go about this?

The other way you might be able to do it is more difficult. Track down studies of extreme high frequency signal detection on the net and see if you can locate someone from those studies and their biographical details online might tell you if they do those tests.

^ Thanks, B19. Yes, I shall have to look into that; there are a few Uni's close by, and a teaching hospital too. I've pretty much given up on the official post-diagnosis help I was supposed to get (it's been four years!), and it would make satisfying my curiosity useful to someone else.

You might find this interesting Trogluddite:

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/83129.pdf

The 20% of the ASD subjects, who demonstrated exceptional ability to detect high frequency sound well above standard detection levels were found to be characterised by two other factors: they were late speakers with normal range intelligence levels.

I suspect that you might fit into this 20% category, I definitely did.

If I watch to much of a foreign show I accidentally temperately pick up an accent.

I have a very deep voice and as a little girl sounded like a grown man.

I am also told I am to loud and mumble a lot.

I do not have a speech delay, but to have times I stop being able to talk, and sometimes stutter.