Speaker-Sex Discrimination for Voiced and Whispered Vowels at Short Durations

Whispered vowels, produced with no vocal fold vibration, lack the periodic temporal fine structure which in voiced vowels underlies the perceptual attribute of pitch (a salient auditory cue to speaker sex). Voiced vowels possess no temporal fine structure at very short durations (below two glottal c...

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Main Author: David R. R. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-09-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669516671320