Long-term-average spectrum (LTAS) characteristics were analyzed for ten Kunqu Opera singers, two in each of five roles. Each singer performed singing, stage speech, and conversational speech. Differences between the roles their performances these three conditions are examined. After compensating Leq difference LTAS still differ but similar conditions, especially Colorful face (CF) Old man roles, reading singing. The curves show no evidence a singer's formant cluster peak, CF role...

High speed laryngoscopic study provides new information on the vocal fold vibratory patterns which has not been made possible before. Qualitative analysis of high images is commonly reported in literature. However, quantitative studies are necessary to provide objective measures for research and clinical purposes. This reports development Speed Video Processing Program analysing high-speed video obtained from 15 non-dysphonic speakers. Nine glottal ratio indices that represented full opened...

Purpose The writing of Chinese is non-alphabetic, but children in China learn Pinyin, a Romanised alphabetic system, to facilitate literacy development. This research investigates how Mandarin phonological awareness (PA) develops, and it interacts with Pinyin school-aged Mandarin-speaking China.Method In Beijing, 182 students grades two through four (ages ranged between 91 135 months) were tested for PA (syllable manipulation onset-rime oddity tasks) knowledge (Pinyin symbol naming syllable...

<b><i>Objective:</i></b> This investigation analyzes flow glottogram and electroglottogram (EGG) parameters as well the relationship between formant frequencies partials in two male Kunqu Opera roles, Colorful face (CF) Old man (OM). <b><i>Participants Methods:</i></b> Four professional singers volunteered participants, 2 for each role. Using inverse filtering of audio signal were measured note scales. Two EGG parameters, contact quotient (CoQ)...

This paper is concerned with a study on jitter, shimmer and F0 of Mandarin infant voice through method signal processing. It has two parts. In the first part processing introduced, which includes 1) inverse-filtering speech voice; 2) extracting; 3) glottal period detecting; 4) jitter calculating. second part, natures in are studied, sounds 100 infants, 50 males females, sampled sustained vowels /a,i u,m/ 5 different pitches pronounced times for each; features among /a,i,u,m/, differences...

The relation between vertical larynx movement and vocal frequency (F0) change has attracted the attention of many researchers. This paper studies laryngeal position (larynx height) during four tones Mandarin, based on X-ray movie data from one female speaker, with 36 monosyllables in tones. location have been measured, compared variation F0 Results show that, first tone, height is weakly correlative F0, while other three positively F0. suggests that upward partially (in tone 1) independent...

The phonation of Noh, a traditional Japanese style singing, was investigated using electroglottographic and acoustical analyses. dynamics the laryngeal vibratory behaviors were analyzed for singing voice Noh play compared with natural speech based on Electroglottography (EGG) parameters, EGG waveform, spectrum, spectrogram. result shows that is characterized by low open quotient high speed quotient. Three types phonations are used in pressed, Vocal-Ventricular Mode (VVM), growl voices. It...

ABSTRACT: Previous studies on tone perception have mainly focused the role of F 0, while there are few but increasing effect non-modal phonation. This study investigates phonation in perceiving five level tones used Hmu, which lowest (T11) is often referred to as “breathy voice”. First, an acoustic analysis was conducted those determine voice quality and whether breathiness limited specific tones, revealing that only co-occurs with T11. Second, a experiment performed investigate can...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the association vocal attack time (VAT) and tones in speakers Mandarin Chinese, explore how initiated at different pitch levels affected VAT. SP EGG signals were synchronously recorded from 72 young undergraduates or postgraduates (42 females 30 males) while they reading aloud a wordlist 50 disyllabic words their most comfortable pitch, loudness rate. VAT measures revealed three findings. (1) Vocal shows no significant difference between common...

Coarticulatory variations of consonant clusters spanning morpheme boundary and transconsonantal vocalic articulatory transition in Standard Chinese as a function speech rates were investigated. Eight /V1C1#C2V2/ eight /V1#pV2/ disyllable sequences uttered by female speaker at slow, normal, fast rate. Electropalatographic, electroglottographic, acoustic data recorded the kinematic properties segments inter-segmental temporal coarticulation analyzed. Results showed duration shortening...

Intelligent Diagnosis for pathological voice contains two parts. One is intelligent detection, and the other comprehension. Before application of comprehension, it important us to know how human perceive voice. This paper first investigated acoustically a patient who had vocal cord polyp read Chinese characters with Mandarin tones before after surgeries. Second, identification test was used find out effect on recognition. The results show that first, Tone 1 3 in F0 contour are statistically...

Summary form only given. The current research studies the effect of focal stress on articulatory and acoustic properties segments in Standard Chinese. narrow focuses different positions pragmatic domains were obtained through contrastive emphasis experimenter's questions for examining linguopalatal contact unaspirated alveolar stop /t/ monophthongal vowels /i/ /u/ inside outside focus domain. Results show that: 1) on-the-focus are generally strengthened articulatorily acoustically. consonant...

To better understand speech production from the phonological inputs to articulatory movements and then acoustic outputs, it is important establish an elaborate model of vocal tract. This paper has explored mechanism in Standard Chinese developed a geometric both visual modalities. was based on data MRI images X-ray movie, with former providing detailed volumetric information tract, latter dynamic articulation. In this model, seven articulators have been studied modeled, including hard...