Acoustical comparison between samples of good and poor vibrato in singers

Journal of Voice

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 179-184

  Diaz, Jose A ^a,c   Rothman, Howard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear Prediction Coding (LPC); Singers' voice; Spectrogram; Speech Processing; Vibrato

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SINGING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; VIBRATION; VOICE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0038656694     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(03)00002-X     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Diaz JA. Frequency characterization of singers' vibrato. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida; 1995. Master's thesis.
2. Sundberg J. The Science of the Singing Voice. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press; 1987.
3. DeJonckere PH, Minoru H, Sundberg J. Vibrato. San Diego, California: Singular Publishing Group; 1995.
4. Prame E. Measurement of the vibrato rate of ten singers. J Acoust Soc Am. 1994;96:1979-1984.
5. Horii Y. Frequency modulation characteristics of sustained /a/ sung in vocal vibrato. J Speech Hear Res. 1989;32:1-8.
6. Maher R, Beauchamp J. An investigation of vocal vibrato for synthesis. Appl Acoustics. 1990;30:19-245.
7. Sundberg J. Acoustic and psychoacoustic aspects of vocal vibrato. KTH Speech Transmission Lab Quart Progr Status Report. 1994;2-3:45-48.
8. Titze IR. Synthesis of sung vowels using a time-domain approach. Transcripts of the Eleventh Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice. New York: The Voice Foundation; 1983:90-98.
9. Mellody M, Wakefield G. The time-frequency characteristics of violin vibrato: modal distribution analysis and synthesis. J Acoust Soc Am. 2000;107:598-611.
10. Ott RL. An Introduction to Statistical Methods and Data Analysis. Belmont, CA: Duxbury Press; 1993.