Vol 33 No 1 (2014)
Speech
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B, M. S. R., Pebbili, G. K., & Soonana, V. V. (1). Smoothened cepstral peak prominence in choral singers, trained singers and non-singers. Journal of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, 33(1), 18-23. Retrieved from http://203.129.241.91/jaiish/index.php/aiish/article/view/773
Abstract
The aim of the study was to understand the vocal quality of voice and eect of speech tasks on Smoothened Cepstral peak prominence (Smoothened CPP) across singers. Three groups of participants com- prising of 16 choral singers, 13 trained singers and 16 non singers were considered. Speech-Tool program developed by Hillenbrand (1994) was
used to analyze the Smoothened CPP. Mixed ANOVA was carried out to verify the statistical signicance of dierence across the groups and speech tasks. Both Choral singers and trained singers obtained higher smoothened cepstral peak prominence than non-singers. Within singers, trained singers obtained higher smoothened CPP values than Choral
singers; however the dierence was not statistically signicant. With respect to speech tasks, smoothened CPP was found to be higher for sustained phonation than Reading and this dierence was found to be statistically signicant. Hence, Smoothened CPP was able to dierentiate singers and non-singers irrespective of the speech tasks used.
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pokinetic and Ataxic Voices: Correlations with Percep-
tual and Other Acoustic Measures. Journal of Voice,
28(6), 673-680.
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S. (2013). Factors associated with singer's perception of
choral singing well-being. Journal of voice, 27(6),786 e,
25-32.
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Vocal shadowing in singers and non-singers. Journal of
Speech and Hearing Research, 31(1), 54-61.
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bre di erences of an individual voice in solo and choral
singing. Archtone Acoustics, 13, 55-65.
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J. (2000). Acoustic analysis of the singing and Speak-
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490-493.
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techniques for vocal pitch detection. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, 41, 293-309.
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singers and non-singers. Journal of voice, 20(3), 341-
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Acoustic comparison of voice use in solo and choir
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76, 1975-1981.
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102(4), 156-162.
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of spoken and sung vowels. Folia Phoniatrica, 22, 28-
48.
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`singing formant'. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 55, 838-844.
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female singer. Acoustica, 32, 89-96.
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acoustics. Royal Swedish Academy of Music, 17, 57-
81.
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between vocal tract and voice source. Progress and
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Status Report- Speech Transmission Laboratory, 1, 1-
48.
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formants and larynx positions. Proceedings of Stock-
holm Music Acoustics Conference, Stockholm, 1, 313-
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analysis for di erentiating normal from hypofuntional
voices in sustained vowel and continuous speech con-
text. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research,
54(6), 1525-1537.
Zarate, J. M., & Zatorre, R. J. (2008). Experience depen-
dent neural substrates involved in vocal pitch regulation
during singing. Neuroimage, 40(4), 1871-1887.