Affiliation:
1. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble Institute of Engineering Univ. Grenoble Alpes, GIPSA-Lab, 38000 Grenoble, France
2. School of Physics, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
Abstract
Men and women speakers were recorded while producing sustained vowels at comfortable and loud levels. Following comfortable speech, loud levels were produced in three different conditions: first without specific instruction (UL); then maintaining the same pitch as the comfortable level (PL); and finally, keeping both pitch and lip articulation constant (PAL). The sound pressure level, the fundamental frequency ([Formula: see text]), the first two vocal tract resonances (R1 and R2), the lip geometry, and the larynx height were measured. For women, a closer proximity of R1 to its nearest harmonic, [Formula: see text], was observed in UL. However, no such increased proximity was found in PL, when speakers could, and did, hyper-articulate. Also, no increased proximity was observed in PAL, when lip articulation was constrained. No significant increase in R1:[Formula: see text] proximity was observed in men in any of the three loud conditions. Finally, R2 was not observed significantly closer to a voice harmonic in loud speech, for neither men nor women.
Funder
Australian Research Council
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Subject
Acoustics and Ultrasonics,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)