Acoustic and perceptual effects of vocal training in amateur male singing

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 832-835

  Saitou, Takeshi ^a   Goto, Masataka ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Psychoacoustic experiment; Singing voice; Vocal training

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EFFECTS; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; BEFORE AND AFTER; F0 FLUCTUATION; PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS; PSYCHOACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; VOCAL QUALITY; VOICE QUALITY;

ACOUSTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70450186015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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