what does our brain really think of these mimicry attempts?
There’s something stupid-sounding about this sentence, though I can’t quite pinpoint it.
Also, I wonder how they controlled for confounding factors. The research indicates that our brains react differently to “fake voices.” How does it react to real voices played with low quality audio (e.g. through a telephone, or AM radio)? What about natural voices that are “ugly” or odd sounding? Speech impediments? Voices in a big hall with lots of reverberation? What about fake voices in an environment with a lot of background noise?