什麼樣嗓音更容易讓別人相信你？
It's no secret that making a good first impression can go a long way. But aside from a smile and a firm handshake, you need one key trait to truly nail that initial meet-and-greet. We’ll give you a hint: Most people pay attention to what you say, not what you do.
衆所周知，給別人留下一個良好的第一印象可能會大有幫助。不過除了微笑和堅定的握手以外，要真正把握第一次會面，你還需要一項重要的特質。我們會給你點提示：多數人注意的是你在說什麼，而不是你在做什麼。
A 2014 study revealed that the tone of a person’s voice can indicate whether or not they are trustworthy. The researchers asked 320 subjects to listen to 64 different people say the word “hello” and rate them based on one of 10 personality traits. Turns out, the participants generally agreed on which voices were trustworthy and which were not—even though the voices played for less than a second.
2014年的一項研究指出，一個人的語調可以表明他們是否值得信任。研究人員請320個主體聽64個不同的人說“hello”（你好）這個詞，並根據10項性格特點之一爲他們打分。雖然播放的聲音還不足1秒鐘，但結果表明，對於那些值得信任以及不值得信任的嗓音，參與者的意見普遍一致。
To find out why this was the case, the team designed a new study. A computer voice model imitated the acoustical traits of the voices that the 2014 participants had rated as most and least trustworthy. Then, 500 more people listened to the recordings online and rated how trustworthy they were on a scale of 1 to 7.
爲了弄清楚爲什麼會這樣，該團隊構思了一項新研究。一臺電腦語音模型模仿了2014年實驗參與者選出來的最值得信任和最不值得信任的嗓音的聲學特點。然後500多人在線聽這段錄音，並根據他們的感知從1到7爲這些聲音的值得信任程度評分。
This is what the findings revealed: voices that “have personality” and inflection are consistently perceived as more trustworthy than those that do not. While the audio clips rated as “most trustworthy” offered varied tones, the least trustworthy ones remained mostly flat.
研究發現，人們一致認爲，“有個性”且抑揚頓挫的聲音比那些沒什麼特點的聲音更值得信任。雖然被評爲“最值得信任的”音頻剪輯有不同的音調，但最不值得信任的音頻剪輯則大多都語調平平。
“It is amazing that from such short bursts of speech you can get such a definite impression of a person,” the researcher Phil McAleer said. “And that, irrespective of whether it is accurate, your impression is the same as what the other listeners get.”
“從這麼短的講話中可以產生對一個人的明確印象，這太驚人了，”研究員菲爾·麥卡利爾說道。“而且，不論這是否正確，你所產生的印象與其他人所感知到的印象是一致的。”
