Differences in voice quality between men and women: Use of the long-term average spectrum (LTAS)

Journal of Voice

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-66

  Mendoza, Elvira ^a,c   Valencia, Nieves ^a   Muñoz, Juana ^a   Trujillo, Humberto ^b  

^a Eval and Psychological Treatment ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c Fac Psicol Inst Neurociencias F   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aspiration noise; Breathiness; Gender differences; Long Term Average Spectrum; Spectral tilt; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUND; SPEECH; VOICE;

EID: 0030051373     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(96)80019-1     Document Type: Article

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