background: repeated efforts by researchers to impose voice changes by laryngeal surface electrical stimulation (ses) have come to no avail. this present pre-experimental study employed a novel method for ses application so as to evoke the motor potential of the internal superior laryngeal nerve (isln) and create voice changes. methods: thirty-two normal individuals (22 females and 10 males) pa...

The problem of computing the fundamental frequency F0 in an accurate way is a known and still partially unsolved problem, especially given a noisy speech input. In this work, a distanttalking scenario is addressed, where a distributed microphone network provides multi-channel input sequences to process for speaker modeling purposes. Given this context, one may process in an independent way each...

The fundamental frequency (F0) of the voice is used to convey information about both linguistic and affective distinctions. However, no research has directly investigated how these two types of distinctions are simultaneously encoded in speech production. This study provides evidence that F0 prominences intended to convey linguistic or affective distinctions can be differentiated by their influ...

This paper describes a real-time method, called PreFEst (Predominant-F0 Estimation method), for estimating the fundamental frequency (F0) of simultaneous sounds in monaural polyphonic audio signals. Without assuming the number of sound sources, PreFEst can estimate the relative dominance of every possible harmonic structure in the input mixture. It treats the mixture as if it contains all possi...

Background: To investigate the value of standard deviation fundamental frequency (F0 SD), jitter, and shimmer for evaluation voice quality description vocal characteristics in patients with disorders.

Fundamental frequency (F0) control models, which can cope with F0 dynamic characteristics related to singing-voice perception, are required to construct natural singing-voice synthesis systems. This paper discusses the importance of F0 dynamic characteristics in singing voices and demonstrates how much it influence on singing voice perception through psychoacoustic experiments. This paper, then...

A model is presented for the analysis and synthesis of low frequency human-like pitch deviation, as a replacement for existing modulation techniques in singing voice synthesis systems. Fundamental frequency (f0) measurements are taken from vocalists producing a selected range of utterances without vibrato and trends in the data are observed. A probabilistic function that provides natural soundi...

Hearing one's own speech is important for language learning and maintenance of accurate articulation. For example, people with postlinguistically acquired deafness often show a gradual deterioration of many aspects of speech production. In this manuscript, data are presented that address the role played by acoustic feedback in the control of voice fundamental frequency (F0). Eighteen subjects p...

A method was developed for synthesizing sentence fundamental frequency (F0) contours of Mandarin speech. It is based on representing an F0 contour in logarithmic frequency scale as a superposition of tone components on phrase components as in the case of generation process model (F0 model). The tone components are realized by concatenating their fragments at tone nuclei predicted by a corpus-ba...