Dissimilarity and the classification of female singing voices: A preliminary study

Journal of Voice

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 195-206

  Erickson, Molly L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Listener experience; Perception; Pitch; Timbre; Voice classification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PITCH; SINGING; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VOICE;

EID: 0037980376     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(03)00022-5     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. ANSI. Psychoacoustical Terminology. S3.20. New York: American National Standards Institute; 1973.
2. Bloothooft G, Plomp R. The timbre of sung vowels. J Acoust Soc Am. 1988;84:847-860.
3. Iverson P, Krumhansl CL. Isolating the dynamic attributes of musical timbre. J Acoust Soc Am. 1993;94:2595-2603.
4. Plomp R. Timbre as a multidimensional attribute of complex tones. In: Plomp R, Smoorenburg GF, eds. Frequency Analysis and Periodicity Detection in Hearing. Leiden, The Netherlands: Sijthoff; 1970:397-414.
5. Samson S, Zatorre RJ, Ramsay JO. Multidimensional scaling of synthetic musical timbre: Perception of spectral and temporal characteristics. Can J Exp Psych. 1997;51:307-315.
6. Vennard W. Singing, the Mechanism and the Technique. New York: Fisher; 1967.
7. Cleveland TF. Acoustic properties of voice timbre types and their influence on voice classification. J Acoust Soc Am. 1977;61:1622-1629.
8. Keidar A, Hurtig R, Titze I. The perceptual nature of vocal register change. J Voice. 1987;1:223-233.
9. Lakatos S. A common perceptual space for harmonic and percussive timbres. Percept Psychphys. 2000;62:1426-1439.
10. ASHA. Guidelines for screening for hearing impairments and middle ear disorders. ASHA. 1990;32:17-24.
11. Fant G. Acoustic Theory of Speech Production. The Hague: Mouton; 1960.
12. Dmitriev L, Kiselev A. Relationship between the formant structure of different types of singing voices and the dimensions of the supraglottal cavities. Folia Phoniatr (Basel). 1979;31:238-241.
13. Sundberg J, Högset C. Voice source differences between falsetto and modal registers in counter tenors, tenors and baritones. Log Phon Vocol. 2001;26:26-36.
14. Titze IR. Principles of Voice Production. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall; 1994.
15. Sundberg J, Gauffin J. Waveform and spectrum of the glottal source. In: Lindblom B, Öhman S, eds. Frontiers of Speech Communication Research, Festschrift for Gunnar Fant. London: Academic Press; 1979:301-320.
16. Gauffin J, Sundberg J. Spectral correlates of glottal voice source waveform characteristics. J Speech Hear Res. 1989; 32:556-565.
17. Mori K, Blaugrund SM, Yu JD. The turbulent noise ratio: An estimation of noise power of the breathy voice using PARCOR analysis. Laryngoscope. 1994;104:153-158.
18. Hertegard S, Gauffin J. Voice source-vocal tract interaction during high-pitched female singing. In: Friberg A, Iwarsson J, Jansson E, Sundberg J, eds. Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustic Conference (SMAC93), 79. Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Music; 1993:177-182.
19. Holmberg EB, Hillman RE, Perkell JS, Guiod PC, Goldman SL. Comparison among aerodynamic, electroglottographic, and acoustic spectral measures of female voice. J Speech Hear Res. 1995;38:1212-1223.
20. Klatt DH, Klatt LC. Analysis, synthesis, and perception of voice quality variations among male and female talkers. J Acoust Soc Am. 1990;87:820-857.
21. Sundberg J. Perceptual aspects of singing. J Voice. 1994; 8:106-122.
22. Monsen RB, Engebretson AM. The accuracy of formant frequency measurements: A comparison of spectrographic analysis and linear prediction. J Speech Hear Res. 1983; 26:87-97.
23. Sandell GJ. Roles for spectral centroid and other factors in determining "blended" instrument pairings in orchestration. Music Percept. 1995;13:209-246.
24. Prame E. Measurements of the vibrato rate of ten singers. J Acoust Soc Am. 1994;96:1979-1984.
25. Prame E. Vibrato extent and intonation in professional Western lyric singing. J Acoust Soc Am. 1997;102:616-621.
26. Pittenger JB, Shaw RE, Mark LS. Perceptual information for the age level of faces as a higher-order invariant of growth. J Exp Psych Human Percept Perform. 1979;5: 478-493.
27. Erickson ML, Perry S, Handel S. Discrimination functions: Can they be used to classify singing voices? J Voice. 2001; 15:492-502.