Re: One's own voice (continued)

[Martin Braun <nombraun@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin and others,

good question. It's this type of question that keeps science alive. My 
suggestion would be that voice imitators do not imitate the power spectrum 
of a voice that they hear. Instead they try to imitate its most striking 
characteristic features.

You have an analogue in caricature drawing of well-known faces. These 
drawings are very far from naturalistic, but the drawn persons can usually 
be recognized instantaneously.

Martin

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Austin" <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:03 AM
Subject: One's own voice (continued)


> This idea continues to roam around my mind. My consideration now is as 
> follows: If the reason for 'not recognizing' ones own voice (or not 
> liking it) from a recording is that the 'sound' is largely from bone 
> conduction, then I'm trying to figure out how it would be possible to 
> imitate another voice.
>
> Someone says the word "shore" to me, and when I imitate it, the  "version" 
> I hear would be largely from bone conduction, and so I would  adjust my 
> speech to adjust for the 'bone conduction filtered' version  of the sound 
> that I hear when I say it. How could I adequately match  an accent or 
> voice, if I don't hear the sound "as I make it".
>
> I'm sorry if this is a vague idea, but I tried to imagine a machine- 
> model, and the model wouldn't work.
>
>
> Best
>
> Kevin