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Auditory Perception of Impulsiveness and Tonality in Vocal Fry
by Vinod Devaraj, Imme Roesner, Florian Wendt, Jean Schoentgen and Philipp Aichinger
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(7), 4186; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13074186 - 25 Mar 2023
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Vocal fry is a voice quality that occurs in a healthy voice, but it can also be a sign of a voice disorder. In this study, we investigated the relationship between the parameters of voice production, a dedicated psychoacoustic feature, and the perceptual [...] Read more.
Vocal fry is a voice quality that occurs in a healthy voice, but it can also be a sign of a voice disorder. In this study, we investigated the relationship between the parameters of voice production, a dedicated psychoacoustic feature, and the perceptual aspects of vocal fry. Two perceptual experiments were carried out to determine whether the fundamental frequency, the open quotient, and the glottal area pulse skewness affect the perception of vocal fry in synthetic vowels. Thirteen listeners participated in the perceptual experiments to assess the following attributes: binary fry (yes/no) and impulsiveness, tonality, and naturalness (7-point Likert scales). The results suggest that the perception of vocal fry is mainly triggered by a low fundamental frequency, but the open quotient also plays a role, with narrower glottal area pulses slightly increasing the probability of perceived fry. Perceived tonality is inversely related to perceived impulsiveness. Internal reference standards of listeners appear to have fixed elements but may also be affected by anchoring and the short-term (i.e., within-vowel) context of the stimuli. In addition, the prominence of the peaks observed in the loudness curve over time appears to be related to graduations of fry. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods and Engineering Solutions to Voice III)
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Modelling of Amplitude Modulated Vocal Fry Glottal Area Waveforms Using an Analysis-by-Synthesis Approach
by Vinod Devaraj and Philipp Aichinger
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(5), 1990; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11051990 - 24 Feb 2021
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The characterization of voice quality is important for the diagnosis of a voice disorder. Vocal fry is a voice quality which is traditionally characterized by a low frequency and a long closed phase of the glottis. However, we also observed amplitude modulated vocal [...] Read more.
The characterization of voice quality is important for the diagnosis of a voice disorder. Vocal fry is a voice quality which is traditionally characterized by a low frequency and a long closed phase of the glottis. However, we also observed amplitude modulated vocal fry glottal area waveforms (GAWs) without long closed phases (positive group) which we modelled using an analysis-by-synthesis approach. Natural and synthetic GAWs are modelled. The negative group consists of euphonic, i.e., normophonic GAWs. The analysis-by-synthesis approach fits two modelled GAWs for each of the input GAW. One modelled GAW is modulated to replicate the amplitude and frequency modulations of the input GAW and the other modelled GAW is unmodulated. The modelling errors of the two modelled GAWs are determined to classify the GAWs into the positive and the negative groups using a simple support vector machine (SVM) classifier with a linear kernel. The modelling errors of all vocal fry GAWs obtained using the modulating model are smaller than the modelling errors obtained using the unmodulated model. Using the two modelling errors as predictors for classification, no false positives or false negatives are obtained. To further distinguish the subtypes of amplitude modulated vocal fry GAWs, the entropy of the modulator’s power spectral density and the modulator-to-carrier frequency ratio are obtained. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods and Engineering Solutions to Voice II)
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