The purpose of this paper is to investigate acoustic characteristics which distinguish ejectives from pulmonic stops in Ingush (a Northeast Caucasian language), and to compare Ingush ejectives to those of other languages. The articulation of ejectives is relatively well understood, but their acoustic effects are less clear. Working with a native speaker of Ingush, ejectives and pulmonic voicele...

The acoustic variation in language presents learners with a substantial challenge. To learn by tracking statistical regularities in speech, infants must recognize words across tokens that differ based on characteristics such as the speaker's voice, affect, or the sentence context. Previous statistical learning studies have not investigated how these types of non-phonemic surface form variation ...

The effectiveness of audio content analysis for music retrieval may be enhanced by the use of available metadata. In the present work, observed differences in singing style and instrumentation across genres are used to adapt acoustic features for the singing voice detection task. Timbral descriptors traditionally used to discriminate singing voice from accompanying instruments are complemented ...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of spectral tilt, alongside the traditionally looked at frequencies of the first two formants, in describing the acoustic characteristics of pharyngealisation in Jordanian and Moroccan Arabic. Twenty male speakers (10 per dialect) produced vowels in each dialect preceded by /d dʕ/. Normalised spectral tilt results show an overall lowered values for ...

The use of noninvasive techniques to evaluate the larynx and vocal tract helps the speech specialists to perform accurate diagnose of diseases. In this study, a method to distinguish among 21 different pathologies using speech signals was developed. Through inverse filtering (Kalman and Wiener filters) of the voice signal, the residue was estimated and seven acoustic features were extracted fro...

The purpose of this study was to define the acoustic voice and speech characteristics of patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Seven female patients with PD and seven female healthy controls participated in this study. Each subject was instructed to vocalize extended corner vowels (/a/, /e/, /i/, /u/) three times for at least 5 seconds at a comfortable voice loudness and tone. The voice was ana...

These days there are many attempts to diagnose patient’s voice by only acoustic voice signal. The major purpose of such experiments are screening the possible patients and lead them to the early diagnosis and treatment. [1][2][3][4][5] Acoustic screening of patient's voice is important in terms of many aspects. It is important for both doctors, who is not an expert of vocal diseases and the pat...

In this paper, acoustic cues and human capability for discriminating singing and speaking voices are discussed to develop an automatic discrimination system for singing and speaking voices. Based on the results of preliminary subjective experiments, listeners discriminate between singing and speaking voices with 70.0% accuracy for 200-ms signals and 99.7% for one-second signals. Since even shor...

The acoustic coupling between the voice production system and the vocal tract has a significant influence on the production of voice. In this study, the coupling effect was represented using the acoustic pressure difference across the glottis, which is capable of inducing a flow, and the mean acoustic pressure in the glottis, which acts as a driving force for the vocal folds. These specific aco...