Santiago Barreda is a phonetician, mostly interested in speech perception. He is interested in questions like:
- How do you know what speech sounds you are listening to?
- How can you tell how big/small young/old someone is from their voice?
- What does it mean to ‘sound’ like a ‘woman’ or a ‘man’?
- How does speech perception relate to the perception of speaker characteristics
I investigate these topics using behavioral experiments (I play speakers a sound and ask them, what did you hear?), and using statistical models to investigate the results.
I also write software for phonetic analysis, lately focused on formant tracking.