International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA 1999) Florence, Italy September 1-3, 1999

Analysis of Intraperiodic Formant Modulations in Spoken and Sung Vowels

Unto K. Laine (1), Anne-Maria Laukkanen (2), Timo Leino (2)

(1) Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Espoo, Finland
(2) Institute of Speech Communication and Voice Research, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Intraperiodic formant modulations in spoken and sung vowels from four Finnish male opera singers were analyzed by using analytic filtering method and modified covariance type of linear prediction. Both methods revealed clear formant modulations. Differences were seen between spoken and sung samples and between individuals.

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Bibliographic reference.  Laine, Unto K. / Laukkanen, Anne-Maria / Leino, Timo (1999): "Analysis of intraperiodic formant modulations in spoken and sung vowels", In MAVEBA-1999, 92-97.