# Articulatory Configurations across Genders and Periods in French Radio and TV archives

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04519 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.04519/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 3 of its 44 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 Aug 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.04356/) (2022)
- [Evolution of Voices in French Audiovisual Media Across Genders and Age in a Diachronic Perspective](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.16104/) (2024)
- [A Semi-Automatic Approach to Create Large Gender- and Age-Balanced Speaker Corpora: Usefulness of Speaker Diarization & Identification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.17552/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [On the Relationship between Accent Strength and Articulatory Features](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.03149/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper studies changes in articulatory configurations across genders and periods using an inversion from acoustic to articulatory parameters. From a diachronic corpus based on French media archives spanning 60 years from 1955 to 2015, automatic transcription and forced alignment allowed extracting the central frame of each vowel. More than one million frames were obtained from over a thousand speakers across gender and age categories. Their formants were used from these vocalic frames to fit the parameters of Maeda's articulatory model. Evaluations of the quality of these processes are provided. We focus here on two parameters of Maeda's model linked to total vocal tract length: the relative position of the larynx (higher for females) and the lips protrusion (more protruded for males). Implications for voice quality across genders are discussed. The effect across periods seems gender independent; thus, the assertion that females lowered their pitch with time is not supported.