The effects of voice open quotient and glottal waveform asymmetry are studied in the spectral domain. The hypothesis that the amplitude difference of the first and second harmonics of the inverse-filtered voice signal (H1*-H2*) is a reliable spectral correlate of the open quotient is tested. Theoretical arguments and experiments are reported. In the theoretical part, analytical formulas are der...

This study investigates acoustic characteristics of Aymara ejectives. Acoustic measurements of the Aymara ejectives were conducted in terms of the durations of the release burst, the vowel, and the intervening gap (VOT), the intensity and spectral centroid of the release burst, and H1-H2 of the initial part of the vowel. Results showed that ejectives vary with place of articulation in the durat...

this paper aims to explore some acoustic properties (i.e. duration and pitch amplitude of speech) associated with three different emotions: anger, sadness and joy against neutrality as a reference point, all being intentionally expressed by six persian speakers. the primary purpose of this study is to find out if there is any correspondence between the given emotions and prosody patterning in p...

This paper has two aims: (1) To contribute to the discussion on what the acoustic correlates of stress and accent in English are, a question on which there is currently no universal agreement; (2) To determine whether vowels in function words receive less stress than similarly unstressed vowels in content words. To this purpose, the study analyses 614 occurrences of the lax high front vowel /I/...

There exists no clear understanding of the importance of spectral tilt for perception of stop consonants. It is hypothesized that spectral tilt may be particularly salient when formant patterns are ambiguous or degraded. Here, it is demonstrated that relative change in spectral tilt over time, not absolute tilt, significantly influences perception of /b/ vs /d/. Experiments consisted of burstle...

measurements of the tilt angle of potential fields can be a useful aid to their interpretation. there are several varieties of the methods in use, such as tilt angle, and the derivative of tilt angle. tilt angle filters are used for exact edge detection of the rectangular bodies artificially by writing a matlab code. the gravity effects of these models are computed by standard algorithms. the e...

In this study, we use voice source measurements over single-and multi-syllable regions to find acoustic cues for broad prosodic classes. Voice source measurements include duration, fundamental frequency, harmonic amplitudes, spectral tilt, and speech amplitude measurements. Using the Boston University Radio Speech Corpus, significant measurements are found from ANOVA tests, and the distribution...

PURPOSE To evaluate how perceptual importance of spectral tilt is altered when formant information is degraded by sensorineural hearing loss. METHOD Eighteen listeners with mild to moderate hearing impairment (HI listeners) and 20-23 listeners with normal hearing (NH listeners) identified synthesized stimuli that varied in second formant (F(2)) frequency and spectral tilt. Experiments 1 and 2...

We demonstrate that grating tilt is an important adjustable parameter that can be utilized in addition to the more familiar parameters of grating length and index change to tune the spectral shapes of fiber phase gratings designed to perform demanding filter applications through guided-mode to radiation-mode coupling loss. A comparison is made between calculated transmission spectra obtained fr...