Novel Competition

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 10, 18 September 1931, Page 8

Novel Competition

Does Voice Indicate Character?

POPULAR radio competition at present being conducted by Ravag, Vienna’s principal broadcasting station, consists in guessing the sex-which should seldom be difficult-age, height, occupation, grade of education, and general appearance of a speaker-dark or fair, stout or thin, clean-shaven or otherwise-and intellectual capacity, after hearing a few, or-in some cases many, words spoken before the microphone. In most cases those taking part are to be persons quite unaccustomed to public speaking, and they may read from a book or from some prepared and approved script. The idea is admittedly taken from experiments recently conducted by a. Manchester professor, in which the answers of 4000 persons concerning the utterances of nine men and ‘women ‘are said to have proved that.the voice alone dpes indicate certain leading external cHaracteristics of the individual as well as his or her character.