Subject: Re: Young female speaker? From: Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:58:37 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Thank you. That's quite spectacular, but perhaps not typical. I've met one female whose lowest note was the Bb above that (about 120 Hz). There was some rather spectacular work with vocal extensions some 60 (??) years ago [1956], called Alfred Wolfsohn's Vox humana and documented on Folkways recordings ... http://www.emusic.com/album/Various-Artists-Smithsonian-Folkways-Vox-Humana-Alfred-Wolfsohn-s-Experiments-in-Exten-MP3-Download/10894784.html and http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=1111 Best Kevin On 2008, Dec 3, at 5:48 PM, Kyle Gorman wrote: > yeah, that's approximately her minimum pitch. > > - kyle > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxx > > wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I'm not sure where the 100 Hz comes from -- emulation of a young >> female >> voice? >> >> Best >> >> Kevin >> >> >> >> >> >>> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:47:00 -0500 >>> From: Kyle Gorman <kgorman@xxxxxxxx> >>> Subject: noise-masking experiments and labiovelars >>> >>> Hi listers, I have two related questions for you. >>> >>> I'm interested in the effects of following vowels on the >>> perception of >>> labiovelars. I was wondering if 1) anybody had done the experiment >>> I'm >>> proposing and 2) whether anybody had tried using stimuli generated >>> in a >>> manner I'm proposing. >>> >>> ... >>> >>> The procedure is as follows. I calculate the RMS amplitude of the >>> original >>> signal by convolving the squared signal with a Kaiser window with >>> beta =3D >>> 20, # of points given by 3.2 x the number of frames for a single >>> period of >>> the lowest pitch, which I set at 100 Hz (young female speaker), >>> then taking >>> the square root of the result. >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Kyle Gorman ~ kgorman@xxxxxxxx ~ 513 405 2543