In this study three different prominence and speech melody related effects on voice quality were studied using an inverse filtering based method. The hypothesis that prominence as a function of sentence and word stress is signaled with more pressed voice quality was tested. The results indicated discrepancies in the parameterization results, and the original hypothesis could not be confirmed. Instead, it is suggested that prominence is expressed with a more breathy voice quality. A possible physiological explanation for the phenomenon is also provided.
Index Terms. voice inverse filtering, prominence
Cite as: Airas, M., Alku, P., Vainio, M. (2007) Laryngeal voice quality changes in expression of prominence in continuous speech. Proc. Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA 2007), 135-138
@inproceedings{airas07_maveba,
author={M. Airas and Paavo Alku and M. Vainio},
title={{Laryngeal voice quality changes in expression of prominence in continuous speech}},
year=2007,
booktitle={Proc. Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA 2007)},
pages={135--138}
}