Breathiness differences in male and female speech. Is H1-H2 an appropriate measure?
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A wellestablished difference between male and female voices, at least in an AngloSaxon con text, is the greater degree of breathy voice used by women. The acoustic measure that has most commonly been used to validate this difference are the relative strengths of the first and second harmonics, H1H2. This paper suggests that sexspecific differences in harmonic spacing combined with the high likelihood of nasality being present in the vocalic portions make the use of H1H2 an unreliable measure in estab lishing sexspecific differences in breathiness.
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