Text Intelligibility and the Singer's Formant-A Relationship?

Journal of Voice

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 539-545

  Sundberg, Johan ^a   Romedahl, Camilla ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Equivalent sound level; Formant transition; Operatic singing; Singer's formant Musical theatre singing; Speaker's formant; Text intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; SINGING; SOUND; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VOICE;

EID: 69249203775     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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