The Speaker's Formant

Journal of Voice

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 555-578

  Bele, Irene Velsvik ^a  

^a VOLDA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cross sectional area of the larynx tube opening; Formant frequencies; Larynx tube configuration; Long term average spectrum; Lowering of F4; Speaker's formant; Spectrographical measurements; Spectrum slope; Vocal tract length; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTRUM; SPEECH; TEACHER; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; LARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STUDENTS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33751540989     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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