We can also pick up on additional info, without having to see the speaker, purely from the voice. E.g. Why is it that we can almost immediately pick up a complete stranger’s approximate age just from hearing them speak a few sentences?
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We’re not. It takes a couple of seconds to build a voice profile. Think of anytime you make a phone call. The first couple of words are very important. If someone says hello to you, you usually respond with a “hello” and other pleasantries. Theae familiar words allows the brain to understand and then decode the rest of the message. If the person in the other end forgoes the pleasantries then there is often a couple of seconds of confusion as you’re not quite sure what they are saying.
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