Effect of the glottal source and the vocal tract on the partials amplitude of vibrato in male voices

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2483-2497

  Arroabarren, Ixone ^a   Carlosena, Alfonso ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL THEORY;

GLOTTAL SOURCE; MALE VOICES; VOCAL TRACT RESPONSE (VTR);

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SINGING; SOUND; VOCAL CORD; VOICE;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PULMONARY VENTILATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33645361970     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2177584     Document Type: Article

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