Essays about: "female voice"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 58 essays containing the words female voice.

  1. 1. Gender Bias in Machine Learning : The Effect of Using Female Versus Male Audio When Classifying Emotions in Speech Using Machine Learning

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Julia Adler; Klara Folke; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : To avoid discrimination between the genders and to improve the performance of machine learning, it is important to evaluate how different test data can impact how accurate machine learning models can be. This study investigates if the distribution between women and men in the training data affects how accurately different machine learning models can classify emotions used in the speaker’s tone of voice. READ MORE

  3. 2. Voice, Agency, and Urgency : Three Ecocritical Readings of Nature and the Protagonist in Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Annika Salisbury; [2023]
    Keywords : Delia Owens; Where the Crawdads Sing; ecocriticism; postcolonial ecocriticism; ecofeminism; climate change criticism; voice; agency; urgency.; Delia Owens; Where the Crawdads Sing; ekokritik; postkolonial ekokritik; ekofeminism; klimatkritik; röst; agens; brådska.;

    Abstract : The female protagonist Catherine Danielle Clark (Kya) in Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing is abandoned by her family at a young age and grows up alone in a marshland environment in 1950s North Carolina. Shunned by the local community, Kya relies on nature to help her survive and to teach her about life and love—until one day she finds herself accused of murder. READ MORE

  4. 3. Drive the world (Girls). A comparative case study on female leadership identity in the automotive industry

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Angélica Jiménez Méndez; [2023]
    Keywords : leadership; gender; automotive; identity;

    Abstract : The automotive industry is one of the worst performing in terms of gender equality. Not only are women underrepresented in this industry, but women within the industry have also expressed that they would start their career in another industry if they had the chance. Companies within this industry are attempting to decrease inequalities. READ MORE

  5. 4. Transformative Lesbian Experiences in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple : A Look at Celie’s Development

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Bäckman Ellen; [2023]
    Keywords : The Color Purple; abuse; feminism; compulsory heterosexuality; lesbianism;

    Abstract : The Color Purple (1982) focuses on highlighting Celie’s journey throughout life as an oppressed black woman living in the South in the United States in the early 1900s. Celie is abused mentally, physically, and sexually by her stepfather Alphonso and her husband Mr. _____. READ MORE

  6. 5. Coming to Voice Through Capoeira : Uncovering Ancestrality and Embodiments of the African Diaspora

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    Author : Ana Da Conceição Paz; [2023]
    Keywords : Capoeira; Radical Openness; African diaspora; Embodiments; Ancestral; Resistance;

    Abstract : Capoeira is an African diasporic art form that developed in Brazil during the transatlantic slave trade. This research explores the history of Capoeira and its contemporary engagement through an autoethnographic method. It follows the first-hand experience of being a black female researcher and a Capoeirista both in Europe and Brazil. READ MORE