C_S_D 3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Menstrual Cycle, Vocal Tract, Obstruent
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O speech carries a lot of information about you as a person. O just a few syllables can tell us: O almost completely due to length of vocal folds. O vocal folds open longer during each glottal cycle. O synthesized speech showed that a woman"s voice is not just a man"s voice at a higher pitch. O chink more apparent (but not a female): https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=- hgy3vomc1y. O what about the short vocal tract? (shorter pipe?) O fricatives produced by women have more energy in the higher spectra (maybe higher than what we can observe on wasp) O peaks and valleys of syllable differ by at least 10 db. O syllable nucleus has relatively open vocal tract and voicing energy. O syllable has at least one episode of low resonance, approximating obstruent consonant. O we can easily perceive the differences in the aged voice. O http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=_ discusses the aging voice) okcp37q6_e (doctor.
