Modeling of Breathy Voice Quality Using Pitch-strength Estimates

Journal of Voice : Official Journal of the Voice Foundation
David A EddinsRahul Shrivastav

Abstract

The characteristic voice quality of a speaker conveys important linguistic, paralinguistic, and vocal health-related information. Pitch strength refers to the salience of pitch sensation in a sound and was recently reported to be strongly correlated with the magnitude of perceived breathiness based on a small number of voice stimuli. The current study examined the relationship between perceptual judgments of breathiness and computational estimates of pitch strength based on the Aud-SWIPE (P-NP) algorithm for a large number of voice stimuli (330 synthetic and 57 natural). Similar to the earlier study, the current results confirm a strong relationship between estimated pitch strength and listener judgments of breathiness such that low pitch-strength values are associated with voices that have high perceived breathiness. Based on this result, a model was developed for the perception of breathy voice quality using a pitch-strength estimator. Regression functions derived between the pitch-strength estimates and perceptual judgments of breathiness obtained from matching task revealed a linear relationship for a subset of the natural stimuli. We then used this function to obtain predicted breathiness values for the synthetic and the r...Continue Reading

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Dec 10, 2017·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR·Carlos A FerrerElmar Nöth
Sep 17, 2019·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR·Yeonggwang ParkCara E Stepp
May 19, 2018·Journal of Voice : Official Journal of the Voice Foundation·Adam D RubinEric J Hunter
Sep 9, 2019·Journal of Voice : Official Journal of the Voice Foundation·Supraja AnandDavid A Eddins
Oct 20, 2019·Journal of Voice : Official Journal of the Voice Foundation·Mathias AaenCathrine Sadolin
Sep 19, 2019·Journal of Voice : Official Journal of the Voice Foundation·Supraja AnandCamille Gray

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