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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Computer Science
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • The Big Five personality traits are a widely accepted model for understanding human personality.
  • Assessing personality traditionally relies on self-report questionnaires, which can be subject to biases.
  • Computational methods offer novel avenues for objective personality assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel method for predicting the Big Five personality traits using speech analysis.
  • To explore the utility of acoustic and linguistic features in speech for personality prediction.
  • To advance the field of computational personality assessment.

Main Methods:

  • Collected speech samples and Big Five personality data from 2045 participants.
  • Utilized pre-trained convolutional neural networks and transformer models to extract speech embeddings (acoustic and linguistic).
  • Employed gradient boosted tree models for personality trait prediction based on combined embeddings.

Main Results:

  • Speech analysis effectively predicted Big Five personality traits, with correlation coefficients ranging from 0.26 to 0.39 (disattenuated: 0.39 to 0.60).
  • The model demonstrated moderate to high consistency in its predictions, as indicated by intraclass correlations.
  • Both the acoustic and linguistic aspects of speech were found to be informative for personality assessment.

Conclusions:

  • Personality traits can be reliably predicted from speech samples, highlighting the expressive nature of vocal communication.
  • Voice-based personality assessment shows significant potential as a complementary tool in psychological research.
  • This study provides new insights into the intricate relationship between speech characteristics and individual personality differences.