Glottal Parameters Contributing to the Perception of Loud Voices

  • Yi, So-Pae (Dept. of Cognitive Science, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, One-Good (Dept. of English Literature and Language, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Hyung-Soon (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • 발행 : 2001.03.01

초록

This paper focused on glottal parameters contributing to the perception of loud voices because energy of a voice is not the only effective factor. We used a formant synthesizer to synthesize loud voices. We divided F0 tilt (the tilt of F0 contour), SQ (Speed Quotient), OQ (Open Quotient) and TL (spectral Tilt Level) into three levels to get different combinations with default values for the other synthesizer parameters. Analysis of listening tests indicated that F0 tilt, SQ, OQ and TL in descending order had significant influence on the perception of loud voices. F0 tilt had a far more significant effect than the others. The influence of SQ increased greatly with the exclusion of F0 tilt as a factor. The interaction between parameters was not significant.

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