Carl Mitchell, Mary Harper, and Leah Jamieson signal consists of a periodic signal and additive noise, the periodicity of the reconstructed signal increases. This likely is relevant for background noise. If the pitch-cycle waveform evolves slowly, i.e., if the changes from pitch cycle to pitch cycle are correlated, then the periodicity of the reconstructed signal is reduced. The latter situatio...

Recent proposals make Danish stød the phonetic manifestation of a HL tonal pattern compressed within one syllable. This review of the relevant aspects of Danish stød and intonation demonstrates that (1) such a tonal representation of stød is contradicted by the phonetic reality. (2) Stød is distributed in words according to the same principles across regional varieties of Danish, but tonal patt...

Visualizing acoustic features of speech has proven helpful in speech therapy; however, it is as yet unclear how to create intuitive and fitting visualizations. To better understand the mappings from speech sound aspects to visual space, a large web-based experiment (n = 249) was performed to evaluate spatial parameters that may optimally represent pitch and loudness of speech. To this end, five...

In this paper, we propose new methods for feature extraction and soft majority voting to adjust efficiency and accuracy of music retrieval. For our work, the input is humming sound which is sound wave and Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is used as the reference song in database. A critical issue of humming sound are variation such as duration, sound, tempo, key, and noise interferen...

The inclusion of emotional aspects into speech can improve the naturalness of speech synthesis system. The different emotions sadness, angry, happiness are manifested in speech as prosodic elements like time duration, pitch and intensity. The prosodic values corresponding to different emotions are analyzed at word as well as phonemic level, using speech analysis and manipulation tool PRAAT. Thi...

"Baby talk" or speech directed to prelinguistic infants is high in pitch and has exaggerated pitch contours (up/down patterns of pitch change) across languages and cultures. Using an acoustic model, we predicted that the large pitch contours of infant-directed speech should improve infants' ability to discriminate vowels. On the other hand, the same model predicted that high pitch would not ben...

The inability to vocally match a pitch can be caused by poor pitch perception or by poor vocal-motor control. Although previous studies have tried to examine the relationship between pitch perception and vocal production, they have failed to control for the timbre of the target to be matched. In the present study, we compare pitch-matching accuracy with an unfamiliar instrument (the slider) and...