# In an EEG experiment, how did listeners respond to an AI-voiced versus human-voiced newscast, and does it show lower credibility?

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Corrected 2026-10-23 - see C3-B715-02; the original statements below are kept for history and are superseded where the correction says so. Problem. Whether synthetic voice reduces the credibility of narrated information. Conditions. 30 participants (16 female, 14 male, mostly 18 to 40), Chinese-language news items read by an AI voice or a human reporter, with emotional or neutral content; EEG and ERP measures. Measured result. Brain activity responses were greater for the human newscast than for the AI newscast, with differences in beta bands in the left posterior temporal lobe and a content-valence by voice-agent interaction. Source statement vs inference. The authors interpret the larger effect for human voice as possibly reflecting trust in its credibility and fluency; no behavioural credibility rating is the basis of that statement. Limitations. Authors state the sample is small and age and gender were not strictly controlled; one language and one TTS system; EEG differences do ...

Problem. Whether synthetic voice reduces the credibility of narrated information. Conditions. 30 participants (16 female, 14 male, mostly 18 to 40), Chinese-language news items read by an AI voice or a human reporter, with emotional or neutral content; EEG and ERP measures. Measured result. Brain activity responses were greater for the human newscast than for the AI newscast, with differences in beta bands in the left posterior temporal lobe and a content-valence by voice-agent interaction. Source statement vs inference. The authors interpret the larger effect for human voice as possibly reflecting trust in its credibility and fluency; no behavioural credibility rating is the basis of that statement. Limitations. Authors state the sample is small and age and gender were not strictly controlled; one language and one TTS system; EEG differences do not show that listeners believed the content less. Contrast. In behavioural ratings Lavan et al. (P-L2-12-09) found a generic AI voice rated more trustworthy than human voices on short stimuli, so credibility effects depend on how trust is measured. Version/date. Accepted 27 Oct 2023.

Curator correction 2026-10-23 (discovery audit record C3-B715-02; sources re-fetched 2026-10-23, excerpts re-located by curator GET): Problem. Whether synthetic voice lowers credibility of narrated news. Conditions. Frontiers in Psychology 2023 study: a pre-experiment session plus a formal EEG/ERP session (30 participants). Method. The pre-experiment was a within-subject design replicating earlier studies on news attributed to machine versus human newscasters. Result. Human voices were perceived as more credible and fluent than AI voices (credibility t(9) = -4.000, p = 0.003; comprehensibility not significant). Correction. The earlier finding should say the paper itself reports a small behavioural credibility result (df = 9, so about 10 raters; not stated separately here), consistent in direction with the EEG result, rather than implying EEG is the only credibility evidence and contrasting it with behavioural ratings in other work. Version/date. Accepted 27 Oct 2023.

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Limitations: n = 30; the credibility link is the authors' hedged interpretation of brain responses, not a credibility measurement. The TTS system and its quality were not extracted here.

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- [sourced_fact] Problem. Whether synthetic voice reduces the credibility of narrated information. Conditions. 30 participants (16 female, 14 male, mostly 18 to 40), Chinese-language news items read by an AI voice or a human reporter, with emotional or neutral content; EEG and ERP measures. Measured result. Brain activity responses were greater for the human newscast than for the AI newscast, with differences in beta bands in the left posterior temporal lobe and a content-valence by voice-agent interaction. Source statement vs inference. The authors interpret the larger effect for human voice as possibly reflecting trust in its credibility and fluency; no behavioural credibility rating is the basis of that statement. Limitations. Authors state the sample is small and age and gender were not strictly controlled; one language and one TTS system; EEG differences do not show that listeners believed the content less. Contrast. In behavioural ratings Lavan et al. (P-L2-12-09) found a generic AI voice rated more trustworthy than human voices on short stimuli, so credibility effects depend on how trust is measured. Version/date. Accepted 27 Oct 2023. · locator: Abstract; Abstract; Participants; Limitations · source: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/PMC10701901/fullTextXML

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