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TMASC: Transmasculine Attitude and Speech Corpus
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TMASC: Transmasculine Attitude and Speech Corpus

Sidney Wong
Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2026, pp.3669-3673
Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) - INTERSPEECH 2026 (Sydney, Australia, 27/09/2026–01/10/2026)
01/09/2026
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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/52544

Abstract

queer & trans voices speech perception Dataset Sociolinguistics Psycholinguistics (incl. speech production and comprehension) Speech pathology Transgender studies Clinical health not elsewhere classified Languages and linguistics

We introduce the Transmasculine Attitudes and Speech Corpus (TMASC), a multimodal corpus of 196 transmasculine individuals, including questionnaire responses and 66 audio recordings. The questionnaire includes items exploring the vocal health of transmasculine individuals. The audio recordings include cough and throat-clearing samples, a reading passage, and additional session-specific questions. This paper outlines the development of this corpus and the data collection procedures. To illustrate the utility of this corpus, we present three case studies demonstrating how this crowd-sourced multimodal corpus can be used to support transmasculine individuals. These include the integration of perceptual and acoustic data, the identification of group-level characteristics, and the calibration of acoustic measurements.

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