Presentation 2021-03-03
[Poster Presentation] Psychological evaluation of popping-out voice quality
Takashi Nakao, Tatsuya Kitamura,
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Abstract(in English) The present study evaluated the "popping-out" voice quality through auditory tests using a semantic differential method. Participants selected speakers who have popping-out voice from 280 speakers (140 male and 140 female) of ATR speech database set C, and then evaluated speech sounds of speakers who have and do not have popping-out voice by thirteen bipolar adjective pairs. Results of a factor analysis suggested that the popping-out voice quality has metallic and powerful qualities.
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Keyword(in English) Voice quality / Semantic differential method / Factor analysis / Metallic voice quality / Powerful voice quality
Paper # EA2020-72,SIP2020-103,SP2020-37
Date of Issue 2021-02-24 (EA, SIP, SP)

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Committee EA / US / SP / SIP / IPSJ-SLP
Conference Date 2021/3/3(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Speech, Engineering/Electro Acoustics, Signal Processing, Ultrasonics, and Related Topics
Chair Kenichi Furuya(Oita Univ.) / Hikaru Miura(Nihon Univ.) / Hisashi Kawai(NICT) / Kazunori Hayashi(Kyoto Univ.) / 北岡 教英(豊橋技科大)
Vice Chair Yoshinobu Kajikawa(Kansai Univ.) / Kentaro Matsui(NHK) / Jun Kondo(Shizuoka Univ.) / Yoshikazu Koike(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / / Yukihiro Bandou(NTT) / Toshihisa Tanaka(Tokyo Univ. Agri.&Tech.)
Secretary Yoshinobu Kajikawa(Univ. of Tokyo) / Kentaro Matsui(NTT) / Jun Kondo(Doshisha Univ.) / Yoshikazu Koike(Tohoku Univ.) / (Univ. of Tokyo) / Yukihiro Bandou(Waseda Univ.) / Toshihisa Tanaka(Hosei Univ.) / (Waseda Univ.)
Assistant Yukou Wakabayashi(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Tatsuya Komatsu(LINE) / Shinnosuke Hirata(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yusuke Ijima(NTT) / Yuichi Tanaka(Tokyo Univ. Agri.&Tech.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics / Technical Committee on Ultrasonics / Technical Committee on Speech / Technical Committee on Signal Processing / Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) [Poster Presentation] Psychological evaluation of popping-out voice quality
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Voice quality
Keyword(2) Semantic differential method
Keyword(3) Factor analysis
Keyword(4) Metallic voice quality
Keyword(5) Powerful voice quality
1st Author's Name Takashi Nakao
1st Author's Affiliation Konan University(Konan Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Tatsuya Kitamura
2nd Author's Affiliation Konan University(Konan Univ.)
Date 2021-03-03
Paper # EA2020-72,SIP2020-103,SP2020-37
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) EA-397,SIP-398,SP-399
Page pp.pp.74-78(EA), pp.74-78(SIP), pp.74-78(SP),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2021-02-24 (EA, SIP, SP)