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Intelligibility of high-pitched vowel sounds in the singing and speaking of a female Cantonese Opera singer

Maurer, Dieter; Mok, Peggy; Friedrichs, Daniel; Dellwo, Volker (2014). Intelligibility of high-pitched vowel sounds in the singing and speaking of a female Cantonese Opera singer. In: Fifteenth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Singapore, 14 September 2014 - 18 September 2014. ISCA, 2132-2133.

Abstract

The question whether or not vowel quality can be maintained at F0 of the sounds exceeding statistical F1 of „normal“ speech is still a matter of debate. The present study investigates the perception of long Cantonese vowels /i, y, œ, a, ɔ, u/, spoken and sung in (C)V and (C)V:S context by a well-known female Cantonese Opera singer in the range of F0 of c. 560–860Hz. 172 high-pitched syllables or isolated vowel sounds were selected and extracted from a live recording. Corresponding vowel perception was tested in a listening test performed by 26 students of linguistics. All six vowels proved to be identifiable > 80% up to F0 of c. 700Hz, and sounds of /i, a, ɔ, u/ proved to be identifiable > 80% up to a range of F0 of c. 820–860Hz. Confusion matrices are provided in the present paper and spectral illustrations of all sounds are presented at http://is2014.phones-and-phonemes.org.

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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Other), not_refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Department of Comparative Language Science
Dewey Decimal Classification:490 Other languages
890 Other literatures
410 Linguistics
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Language and Linguistics
Physical Sciences > Human-Computer Interaction
Physical Sciences > Signal Processing
Physical Sciences > Software
Physical Sciences > Modeling and Simulation
Language:English
Event End Date:18 September 2014
Deposited On:17 Nov 2014 13:54
Last Modified:05 May 2024 03:33
Publisher:ISCA
OA Status:Green
Official URL:http://193.6.4.39/~czap/letoltes/IS14/IS2014/PDF/AUTHOR/IS142013.PDF
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