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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Human voice"”.
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Beyond the Human Voice: Francis Poulenc's Psychological Drama La Voix humaine (1958)
Francis Poulenc's one-character opera La Voix humaine (1958), a setting of the homonymous play by Jean Cocteau, explores the psychological complexities of an unnamed woman as she experiences the end of a romantic relationship. During the forty-minute work, she sings in a declamatory manner into a …
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The persistence of the oral: on the enduring importance of the human voice
… and commentary contest the idea that the voice has become less important than text and image in an era that has come to be known as one of 'secondary orality'. The outputs set out to demonstrate that, although metaphorical and narrative meanings of 'voice' have come to displace a sense of …
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Detection of the uniqueness of a human voice: towards machine learning for improved data efficiency
The aim of this thesis is to characterise voice characteristics that can establish the identity of the person who is speaking, independent of the language used. The fundamental goal of the work is to understand how humans recognise a speaker. The voice parameters such as: speech rate, natural …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Lying and Deception
… the effect of interaction with a machine (voicebot) on dishonest reporting. We conducted an online experiment using a coin-toss task and compared reported outcomes across different reporting channels: Human Voice, Voicebot, and Text. We designed a uniform online voice chat interface to …
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Sinfonietta for wind ensemble augmented with string quartet
… building blocks for the music. The sound of the human voice, integral to the singing of folk tunes, is embraced in the ornamentation of the solo lines. Along with this mimicry is a moment of actual singing by members of the ensemble. Since wind players, brass players, and vocalists all require a …
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An Acoustical Analysis of Domes Coupled to Rooms, with Special Application to the Darussholah Mosque, in East Java, Indonesia
… mosque, in East Java, Indonesia. A miniature human voice source was created to carry out the impulse response measurements. It was carefully evaluated to ensure that it produced adequate frequency response and directivity comparable to an actual human voice. Acoustical parameters were derived …
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The maternal experience of having a child with night-time sleep difficulties
… research was to add depth of understanding and a human voice to existing research on the maternal experience of having a child with night-time sleep difficulties. It was hoped that this increased understanding could be used by counselling psychologists, not only in their own clinical practice but …
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Speaking and the world : a phenomenology of voice
The aim of this work is to describe how the human speaking voice can be simultaneously present and absent to those who hear and listen. A significant portion of the work is devoted to a study of Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness with a focus on the character Kurtz who is described as "little …
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SUSTAINABLE AND MOBILITY TECHNOLOGIES FOR ASSISTIVE HEALTHCARE AND MONITORING
… The first work and prototype is a scalable human vital status information monitoring hardware and communication infrastructure to monitor the Core Body Temperature of sports/army personnel performing strenuous physical activities. The second work and prototype is pulled by an aging …
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The sacred choral music of Alberto Ginastera
… (Ginastera's) contemporary Benjamin Britten, the human voice is perhaps Alberto Ginastera's greatest influence: the operas, the cantatas, the chamber music with voice and not least the choral writing."" Ginastera composed three choral works and, notably, all three appear in the sacred genre. These …
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Vocal Minimalism: An analysis and pedagogical approach to minimalist vocal techniques in new works for choir
… singers, and in some cases, a disregard for the voice's limitations and opportunities. This document seeks to encourage increased inclusion of the human voice in choral compositions that utilize minimalist techniques through the commissioning of new works by Amy Gordon, Kota Hayton, Frank Nawrot, …
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A Fundamental Frequency Data Acquisition System (FFDAS).
The human voice contains many frequencies, but the human listener perceives the lowest frequency in the harmonic series, the fundamental frequency (FO), as the pitch of the speaker’s voice at any given instant in time. Fundamental frequency in human speech conveys linguistic (semantic, …
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Changing her tune : how a transsexual woman claims a new identity through voice
The human voice is an important indicator of a person's gender. For male-to-female transgender individuals (or transsexuals) the voice is one of the most difficult parts of the gender transition. Males have larger and heavier vocal apparatuses (larynx and vocal folds), which generally produce a …
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"CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LISTEN TO IT, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK IT WAS?": A STUDY OF SOUND TECHNOLOGIES IN SAMUEL BECKETT'S ALL THAT FALL, EMBERS, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE AND THAT TIME
… efficacy and immediate emotional power of the human voice. <italic>Krapp's Last Tape</italic> and <italic>That Time</italic> are discussed in terms of their incorporations of techniques and technologies (namely, the tape recorder and stereophonic principle of sound design, respectively) which …
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On Becoming
… Specifically, over 400 years of using the human voice in a specific (Bel Canto) manner – ‘emphatic voice use’ (Clarke, 2016), traditional European compositional and orchestration techniques came to an end. These changes have dramatically affected how communities practice and relate to music …
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Hearing voices: electroacoustic composition portfolio and commentary
The concept of voice is a fundamental thread that underpins my PhD portfolio, with the human voice being present in all but one of the compositions. The drive to make what I think of as 'voice works' has, to a large extent, been influenced by various theatrical vocal practices that are in some way …
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A portfolio of acousmatic compositions
… use of the qualities and characteristics of the human voice in my work, particularly in the spectral domain – formant and resonant filtering processes are used in the pieces in this portfolio to enhance the organic nature of concrete, real-world sounds. The combination of spatialisation, gesture …
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Source localization from voice signals
… Practically speaking, the aim is to allow smart voice assistants, such as Amazon Echo or Google Home, which possess a small array of microphones, to locate human speakers by determining the location of their voice in space. Although such voice assistants are currently capable of determining the …
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The Effects of Speech Cues on Long-term Memory
… memory and possible phonologic cues in the human voice. Specifically, if someone has told us something in the past, does hearing that same voice at the time of recall affect our ability to remember what was said? Also, if voice cues do affect memory, is the effect voice-specific? Since most …
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Singing voice analysis/synthesis
The singing voice is the oldest and most variable of musical instruments. By combining music, lyrics, and expression, the voice is able to affect us in ways that no other instrument can. As listeners, we are innately drawn to the sound of the human voice, and when present it is almost always the …
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