Unexpected benefits of voice type computing / by 359896 Bowes, Douglas R.

THE SOPRANO VOICE TYPE AND IT’S IMPORTANCE WITHIN THE OPERETTA GENRE by Eva-Elena JORDAN

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Precarious Voices? Types of “Political Citizens” and Repertoires of Action among European Youth by Lara Monticelli, Matteo Bassoli

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Visual biases in evaluation of speakers’ and singers’ voice type by cis and trans listeners by Jay Marchand Knight, Anastasia G. Sares, Mickael L. D. Deroche

“…IntroductionA singer’s or speaker’s Fach (voice type) should be appraised based on acoustic cues characterizing their voice. …”
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New objective timbre parameters for classification of voice type and fach in professional opera singers by Matthias Müller, Zehui Wang, Felix Caffier, Philipp P. Caffier

“…Since there are no specific timbre parameters, previous studies have come to the very general conclusion that the center frequencies of the singer’s formants are somewhat higher in the higher voice types than in the lower ones. For specification, a database was created containing 1723 sound examples of various voice types. …”
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Discrimination between Modal, Breathy and Pressed Voice for Single Vowels Using Neck-Surface Vibration Signals by Zhengdong Lei, Evan Kennedy, Laura Fasanella, Nicole Yee-Key Li-Jessen, Luc Mongeau

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Editorial: Anti-transgender prejudice: causes, consequences, and interventions by Thomas J. Billard, Thomas J. Billard, Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-White, Naiara Ozamiz Etxebarria

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Türkçe Öğretmenlerinin Eylemde Çatı Konusunu Ele Alışları Üzerine Bir İnceleme by Burcu Öztürk, Seher Çiçek

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Profesyonel Ses Eğitimi Alan Bireylerin Ses Özelliklerinin İncelenmesi (An Analysis of Individuals’ Voice Characteristics with Professional Voice Training) by Satı DOĞANYİĞİT, Nalan YİĞİT

“…However, significant differences were present in voice type and F0, F3, F4 formant frequencies, jitter, and shimmer. …”
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A Study of Zero Anaphora Resolution in Chinese Discourse: From the Perspective of Psycholinguistics by Ning Yang, Jingyu Zhang, Lijun Ma, Zhi Lu, Zhi Lu

“…The voice type, according to the results, plays a significant role for its exclusively close relationship with the first-mention effect.…”
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THE SYMBOL OF THE SHADOW IN VERDI’S OTELLO by Letiția GOIA, Oana MUREȘAN

“…In Otello, Shakespeare’s knowledge of the human nature meets Verdi’s skill in exploring the psychological depth of the characters by means specific to the art of sounds: tonality, choice of voice type, melodic lines, leitmotifs, rhythm, selection of instruments, or orchestration. …”
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Is Natural Necessary? Human Voice versus Synthetic Voice for Intelligent Virtual Agents by Amal Abdulrahman, Deborah Richards

“…In this paper, we present the results of a study to investigate the effect of voice type (human voice vs. synthetic voice) on two aspects: (1) the IVA’s likeability and voice impression in the light of co-presence, and (2) the interaction outcome, including human–agent trust and behavior change intention. …”
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A perceptual sound space for auditory displays based on sung-vowel synthesis by Davide Rocchesso, Salvatore Andolina, Giacomo Ilardo, Salvatore Danilo Palumbo, Ylenia Galluzzo, Mario Randazzo

“…Vowels are arranged along the circular dimension, while voice type and pitch of the vowel correspond to the remaining two axes of the cylindrical VTP space. …”
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Irish Influence in the Consonantal Spellings of Old English by David L. White

“…<ch>: though OE did not have a distinction between /h/ and /x/, OI did, spelling the latter as <ch>. 3) <ch> and <th>: both spellings appear to be from Irish. 4) <cg>: spellings of the “mixed voice” type, including “cg”, occur in OI, where they can spell either single or geminate voiced plosives. 5) <bb> (and <cg>): almost certainly in fi nal position <bb, cg> in OE represent singles, not geminates, as they can in OI. 6) Spelling rules referring to post-vocalic position: all cases show OE spelling having had, like OI spelling, rules referring to post-vocalic position, which appear to be additionally evidenced by “illogical doubling” in Northumbrian. 7) The meaning of <g> before front Vs: in OE spelling as in OI spelling, but not as in Roman Latin spelling, <g> before front Vs spells a palatal approximant rather than a palatal affricate. …”
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Future Forecasting of COVID-19: A Supervised Learning Approach by Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Arslan Shafique, Sohail Khalid, Maha Driss, Saeed Rubaiee

“…The proposed diagnosis method takes into consideration several symptoms, such as flu symptoms, throat pain, immunity status, diarrhea, voice type, body temperature, joint pain, dry cough, vomiting, breathing problems, headache, and chest pain. …”
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Robot Voices in Daily Life: Vocal Human-Likeness and Application Context as Determinants of User Acceptance by Simon Schreibelmayr, Martina Mara

“…While most personality factors did not prove influential, openness to experience was found to moderate the relationship between voice type and user acceptance such that individuals with higher openness scores rated the most human-like voice even more positively. …”
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His Voice and Something More: Francesco Borosini’s Cantata Quando miro o stella o fiore for Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen by Emilia Pelliccia

“…It contains steep jumps between registers and uncustomary low notes that may cast doubt on the intended voice type. Many possibilities come to mind, as vocal technique in late baroque Italian opera still puzzles scholars today. …”
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A Systematical Evaluation on the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition by Özgül Gök, Gül Fahriye Evren

“…Data regarding terms and conditions of the competition, audition processes, winners, awards, jury members for the preliminary auditions and finals, winners by country, Turkish award winners, number of awards received by Turkish award winners, distribution of award winners by voice type, distribution of award winners by gender, organizing institutions and gala concerts were evaluated and presented by classifying them according to years. …”
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The voice effect in multimedia instruction revisited: Does it still exist? by Nazmi Dinçer

“…The researchers employed sophisticated TTS engines in a pretest-posttest design to analyze the various voice types (human voice, traditional machine voice, and modern machine voice). …”
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Low Complexity DFT-Domain Noise PSD Tracking Using High-Resolution Periodograms by Ulrik Kjems, Jesper Jensen, Richard Heusdens, Richard C. Hendriks

“…This holds in particular for voiced type of speech sounds which can be modelled using a small number of complex exponentials.…”
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