Perceptual Adaptation to Noise-Vocoded Voice Clones

Han Wang, Carolyn McGettigan, Patti Adank, School of Psychology, University of Roehampton, Clinical Systems Neuroscience Section, Department of Developmental Neurosciences, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, Department of Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London

Trends in Amplification

Published online on July 18, 2026

Abstract

Trends in Hearing, Volume 30, January-December 2026.
Voice cloning technology has developed rapidly, and current synthesis techniques can produce humanlike voices. Recent research has shown that cloned voices can now be more intelligible than their human originals in background noise, a signal-extrinsic ...