The perception of scale in whispered vowels P36

Speaker-Sex Discrimination for Voiced and Whispered Vowels at Short Durations

Whispered vowels, produced with no vocal fold vibration, lack the periodic temporal fine structure which in voiced vowels underlies the perceptual attribute of pitch (a salient auditory cue to speaker sex). Voiced vowels possess no temporal fine structure at very short durations (below two glottal cycles). The prediction was that speaker-sex discrimination performance for whispered and voiced v...

The Formant Comparison between Chinese Whispered and Voiced Vowels

In this paper, an improved dynamic programming (IDP) algorithm based on wild card mechanism and continuity constraint for the formant tracking is proposed, and the ratios of Chinese whispered to voiced formants are statistically analyzed. Experiments were performed on six Chinese simple blade vowels with four tones uttered by 20 speakers. The formant differences are quantified by the ratios of ...

Perception of vocal effort and distance from the speaker on the basis of vowel utterances.

The sound pressure level of vowels reflects several nonlinguistic and linguistic factors: distance from the speaker, vocal effort, and vowel quality. Increased vocal effort also involves the emphasis of higher frequency components and increases in F0 and F1. This should allow listeners to distinguish it from decreased distance, which does not have these additional effects. It is shown that list...

The Study of Vowel Space and Formant Structure in Mazani Language

Objective: One of the parameters showing the correct phonetic and phonological development is the correct and clear articulation of vowels is achieved by changing the shape of vocal cords through altering the height and position of the tongue and the movement of the lips and jaw. The tongue’s height and position are the basis of the production and difference of vowels. In other words, the raw s...

Pitch of voiced and whispered vowels