Girl Talk: Understanding Negative Reactions to Female Vocal Fry

Habitual use of vocal fry in young adult female speakers.

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of vocal fry in young adult Standard American-English (SAE) speakers. This was a preliminary attempt (1) to determine the prevalence of the use of this register in young adult college-aged American speakers and (2) to describe the acoustic characteristics of vocal fry in these speakers. Subjects were 34 female college students. They were native S...

Subglottal pressure and airflow measures during vocal fry phonation.

Effect of Vocal Fry on Voice and on Velopharyngeal Sphincter.

Introduction It is known that the basal sound promotes shortening and adduction of the vocal folds and leaves the mucosa looser. However there are few studies that address the supralaryngeal physiological findings obtained using the technique. Objective To check the effectiveness of using vocal fry on the voice and velopharingeal port closure of five adult subjects, whose cleft palate has been ...

Parameterization of vocal fry in HMM-based speech synthesis

HMM-based speech synthesis offers a way to generate speech with different voice qualities. However, sometimes databases contain certain inherent voice qualities that need to be parametrized properly. One example of this is vocal fry typically occurring at the end of utterances. A popular mixed excitation vocoder for HMM-based speech synthesis is STRAIGHT. The standard STRAIGHT is optimized for ...

Proposal of acoustic measures for automatic detection of vocal fry

Vocal fry is a voice quality that often appears in relaxed voices indicating low tension, or in pressed voices expressing attitudes/feelings of surprise, admiration and suffering. We propose a set of acoustic measures for automatically detecting vocal fry segments in speech utterances. In order to deal with vocal fry utterances with very low fundamental frequencies, where classic short-term ana...