Relationship between changes in voice pitch and loudness

doi:10.1016/S0892-1997(88)80067-5

Journal of Voice

Volume 2, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 118-126

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Changes in mean fundamental frequency accompanying changes in loudness of phonation are analyzed in 9 professional singers, 9 nonsingers, and 10 male and 10 female patients suffering from vocal functional dysfunction. The subjects read discursive texts with noise in earphones, and some also at voluntarily varied vocal loudness. The healthy subjects phonated as softly and as loudly as possible at various fundamental frequencies throughout their pitch ranges, and the resulting mean phonetograms are compared. Mean pitch was found to increase by about half-semitones per decibel sound level. Grossly, the subject groups gave similar results, although the singers changed voice pitch more than the nonsingers. The voice pitch changes may be explained as passive results of changes of subglottal pressure required for the sound level variation.

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Relationship between changes in voice pitch and loudness*

Summary

Data on the glottal voice source behavior in vowel production

Speech Trans Lab Quart Prog Status Rept

Glottal source and excitation and analysis

Speech Trans Lab Quart Prog Status Rept

A four-parameter model of glottal flow

Speech Trans Lab Quart Prog Status Rept

The Lombard sign and the role of hearing in speech

J Speech Hear Res

Recommendation by the Union of European Phoniatricians (UEP): standardizing voice area measurement/phonetography

Folia Phoniatr

Effects of high-frequency feedback and noise on phonation as analyzed by long-term-average spectra

Speech Trans Lab Quart Prog Status Rept