Singing power ratio: Quantitative evaluation of singing voice quality

Journal of Voice

Volumn 10, Issue 3 2, 1996, Pages 228-235

  Omori, Koichi ^a,b   Kacker, Ashutosh ^a   Carroll, Linda M ^a   Riley, William D ^a   Blaugrund, Stanley M ^a  

^a LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Perceptual analysis; Ringing; Singer's formant; Singing voice; Spectrum analysis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POWER SPECTRUM; SINGING; VOICE; VOWEL;

EID: 0029814563     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0892-1997(96)80003-8     Document Type: Article

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