| Presentation | 2002/10/23 Voice quality expressions of speech utterance and their acoustic correlates Hiroshi KIDO, Hideki KASUYA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In every day life, various expressions associated with voice quality are frequently used, such as "high-pitched," "youthful," and "calm." We have already reported nine voice quality expressions in Japanese which were extracted out of more than 200 expressions as statistically significant. In this paper, we report significant acoustic correlates of each of the voice quality expressions which were measured through perceptual experiments for speech samples uttered by 84 talkers, especially focusing on the sound pressure level (SPL) of the utterance. For "hoarse" quality, for instance, spectral tilt and amount of aperiodic components in the long vowel segment [aa] of the utterance resulted in significant acoustic correlates, which is considered to be quite reasonable. The SPL has proved to be a significant acoustic parameter in many expressions. This fact suggests that the SPL plays an important role in the auditory perception of the speech utterance and thus should be adequately controlled in the recording and perceptual experiment. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Expressions of Voice quality / Acoustic parameters / Graphical modeling / Decision tree / ARX-analysis |
| Paper # | WIT2002-35 |
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| Conference Date | 2002/10/23(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Voice quality expressions of speech utterance and their acoustic correlates |
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| Keyword(1) | Expressions of Voice quality |
| Keyword(2) | Acoustic parameters |
| Keyword(3) | Graphical modeling |
| Keyword(4) | Decision tree |
| Keyword(5) | ARX-analysis |
| 1st Author's Name | Hiroshi KIDO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | National Research Institute of Police Science() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hideki KASUYA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Faculty of Engineering, Utsunomiya University |
| Date | 2002/10/23 |
| Paper # | WIT2002-35 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.102 |
| Number (no) | 419 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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