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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Breathiness"”.
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Four -Way Stop Contrasts in Hindi: An Acoustic Study of Voicing, Fundamental Frequency and Spectral Tilt
… the vowel following the stops indicate that the breathiness following the VAS permeates into a sizeable portion of the vowel. Comparisons between durations of breathiness spread and voiceless aspiration also show that voiceless aspiration is shorter in duration than the duration of breathiness …
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Spontaneous nasalization: An articulatory investigation of glottal consonants in Thai
… or enhancement because nasality and breathiness are acoustically similar (Matisoff, 1975; Ohala and Amador, 1981). Due to the acoustic similarities between nasalization and breathiness, e.g. high spectral tilt and weakened F1, disentangling the relative roles of physiological …
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Development of a Hindi Version of Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V)
… compared to the GRBAS scale (Grade, Roughness, Breathiness, Asthenia, and Strain) as it is the current standard of care in India. Results: A strong correlation was found between the Hindi CAPE-V scores and the English CAPE-V scores in overall severity, roughness, breathiness, and pitch (r>. 0.5, …
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Exposing the hidden vocal channel: Analysis of vocal expression
… a continuum relationship across whispering, breathiness, modal speech, and resonance, and revealed multiple spectral sub-types of breathiness, modal speech, resonance, and creaky voice. Finally, latent semantic analysis (LSA) applied to the crowdsourced keyword descriptors enabled organic …
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Speech, signal, symptom : machine listening and the remaking of psychiatric assessment
… of speech-such as pitch, speaking rate, and breathiness-which they argue are more directly linked to the internal mechanisms that drive mental illness.
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The Aging Female Voice: Medical Treatments and Pedagogical Techniques For Combatting the Effects of Aging With Emphasis On Menopause
… causes vocal changes including hoarseness, breathiness and a reduction in range. In addition, a swelling of the vocal folds and changes in the amount and consistency of the mucous membranes lining the vocal tract are all concerns. Although it is impossible to reverse the aging process, it is …
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Reliability Of The Concensus Auditory-perceptual Evaluation Of Voice On Pediatric Voices With Trained And Untrained Listeners
… asses 1.) overall severity, 2.) roughness, 3.) breathiness, 4.) strain, 5.) pitch and 6.) loudness from a sample of pediatric voices. Twenty-four graduate clinicians who had completed a graduate level course in voice disorders participated in the study. Twelve of the participants were randomly …
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An exploration of factors which have an impact on the vocal performance and vocal effectiveness of newly qualified teachers/lecturers
… discrete features of pitch, resonance, degree of breathiness and clarity of the note. The sum of these features is perceived as voice/vocal quality. The study sought to gain a deeper knowledge of the vocal demands of the teaching role with a particular focus on the experiences of newly qualified …
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Optimizing acoustic and perceptual assessment of voice quality in children with vocal nodules
… Results showed that perceptual ratings for breathiness best characterized the presence of nodules in children's voices, and ratings for the production of sentences best differentiated normal voices and voices with nodules for both children and adults. Selected voice quality-related acoustic …
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The Exploration of a Combination Therapy on Voice Feminization for Male-to-Female Transgender Individuals
… 50 minutes for seven weeks. It targeted pitch, breathiness, oral resonance, verbal communication, and nonverbal communication. Naive listeners, clinicians, and participants judged vocal femininity and gender.Results: Naïve listeners, clinicians, and the participants perceived both participants …
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A sociophonetic investigation of ethnolinguistic differences in voice quality among young, South African English speakers
… to use a voice quality characterized by more breathiness. By providing a description of voice quality variation, the research contributes towards a more complete account of sociolinguistic variation in South African English.
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Fricative Vowels in Changzhou Wu: An Acoustic and Articulatory Study
… processes, aerodynamic effects associated with breathiness in lower tonal registers, and perceptually driven phonologization. Second, a distinction between apical vowels and fricative vowels has been established, although the two terms have often been used interchangeably in the existing …
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Perceptual and acoustic features of speech in individuals with Down syndrome and their impact on speech intelligibility
… Results showed that a measure of phonation, breathiness, and a measure of articulatory accuracy, percent consonants correct, were the two strongest predictors of speech intelligibility. Study 2 was similar to the first study in that it also used regression analysis to examine which parameters …