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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #50974 Medium Sexy Sound
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You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker said. Please click on the words that are different.
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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Correct Transcript:

What makes someone sound sexy? To get a scientific viewpoint, researchers gauged volunteers' responses to different voices. The conclusion: voices considered attractive send messages about body size. The work is in the journal PLOS ONE. In the animal kingdom, sound indicates size and intentions. For example, a rough and frequency call suggests the vocalizer is large and aggressive, while a clearer, higher frequency signals a small, nonthreatening animal. In the study, researchers adjusted a variety of voices to correspond with different body sizes. To do so, they synthesized completely artificial voices, and recorded sentences before varying the pitches and resonance.
When volunteers listened to the sound samples, men preferred higher-pitched female voices like this one, which suggest a smaller body size.
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Printed "reasoners", the speaker says "researchers"

Explanation: The speaker says "researchers gauged volunteers", not "reasoners". Both words start with the same letter, so listen to the whole word before you click.

Printed "felicitous", the speaker says "messages"

Explanation: Listen for "send messages about body". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, so follow the sound, not the page.

Printed "breezily", the speaker says "frequency"

Explanation: You will hear "a rough and frequency call". The printed word makes no sense before "call".

Printed "absurd", the speaker says "correspond"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "to correspond with". They start with different letters, and the spoken word is much longer than the printed one.

"PLOS" matches the audio

Explanation: "journal PLOS ONE" is a short printed phrase. The speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

"resonance" matches the audio

Explanation: Do not click "pitches and resonance". It may look wrong, but the speaker says it exactly.

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