This paper presents a review of 107 research papers relating to speech and sex or gender in ISCA Interspeech publications between 2013 and 2023. We note the scarcity of work on this topic and find that terminology, particularly the word gender, is used in ways that are underspecified and often out of step with the prevailing view in social sciences that gender is socially constructed and is a spectrum as opposed to a binary category. We draw attention to the potential problems that this can cause for already marginalised groups, and suggest some questions for researchers to ask themselves when undertaking work on speech and gender.
翻译:本文综述了2013年至2023年间ISCA Interspeech出版物中与语音及生理性别/社会性别相关的107篇研究论文。我们注意到该主题的研究数量稀少,并发现相关术语——特别是"性别"一词——在使用中存在定义模糊的问题,且往往与社会科学领域的主流观点脱节:后者认为性别是社会建构的、具有光谱性的范畴,而非二元划分。我们指出这种现状可能对已处于边缘地位的群体造成潜在问题,并为从事语音与性别研究的工作者提出若干值得反思的问题。