The present study aims at describing voice quality settings by means of long-term, f0 and intensity analysis of samples which integrate the material developed with the purpose of introducing the Voice Profile Analysis Scheme-VPAS in the Brazilian Portuguese context (BP-VPAS). The voice quality database was recorded in a radio studio. The audio samples were analyzed by means of the SG Expression...

Time-of-day effects on voice range profile performance were investigated in 20 vocally healthy untrained women between the ages of 18 and 35 years. Each subject produced two complete voice range profiles: one in the morning and one in the evening, about 36 hours apart. The order of morning and evening trials was counterbalanced across subjects. Dependent variables were (1) average minimum and a...

In the last few years, the number of systems and devices that use voice based interaction has grown significantly. For a continued se of these systems, the interface must be reliable and pleasant in order to provide an optimal user experience. However there are urrently very few studies that try to evaluate how pleasant is a voice from a perceptual point of view when the final application s a s...

This paper describes novel voice quality control of synthetic speech using cluster adaptive training (CAT). In this method, we model voice quality factors labeled with perceptual expressions such as “Gender,” “Age” and “Brightness.” In advance, we obtain the intensity scores of the perceptual expressions by conducting a listening test, which evaluates differences of voice qualities between synt...

30 schizophrenics who met the criteria of Feighner et al and were having verbal auditory hallucinations, with or without hallucinations of other varieties were chosen for the study. The relation between neuroticism scale of Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire and different aspects of the voice was examined. Neuroticism scores were positively related to the level of anxiety prior to the voice, a...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To analyze tracheoesophageal voice resistance in laryngectomized patients by comparing the acoustic, perceptive-auditory and self-evaluation measures before and after the voice resistance test. STUDY DESIGN An observational, experimental study with a quantitative and descriptive approach. METHODS Nineteen total laryngectomees were submitted for capture of vocal intensi...

In a group of chronically dysphonic patients, a voice range profile, or phonetogram, was recorded before and after receiving voice therapy and again 3 months later. The voice range profiles took a wide variety of shapes. Therefore, only measures that did not depend on a smooth contour could be used to describe changes before and after therapy. The main effect of voice therapy was an enlargement...

This study compared emotion perception accuracy between children with Asperger's syndrome (AS) and high-functioning autism (HFA). Thirty children were diagnosed with AS or HFA based on empirically supported diagnostic criteria and administered an emotion perception test consisting of facial expressions and tone of voice cues that varied in intensity. Participants with AS and the typically devel...

This paper derived four acoustic parameters reflecting voice quality improvement by voice training. Voice training corrects respiration, phonation, articulation, and facial expression. The purpose of this study is to develop acoustic parameters which quantitatively represent the quality of each training item. This paper examined six acoustical feature parameters on the performance as the measur...