A Systematic Study on Formant Transition in Speech Using Sinusoidal Glide

Wang WJ, Guo B, Tan CT. A Systematic Study on Formant Transition in Speech Using Sinusoidal Glide. In: AES Convention 131. Audio Engineering Society; 2011. Paper 8479. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=16005

@inproceedings{Wang2011_16005,
  author = {Wang, Wen-Jie and Guo, Benjamin and Tan, Chin-Tuan},
  title = {{A Systematic Study on Formant Transition in Speech Using Sinusoidal Glide}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 131},
  note = {Paper 8479},
  year = {2011},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=16005}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - A Systematic Study on Formant Transition in Speech Using Sinusoidal Glide
AU  - Wang, Wen-Jie
AU  - Guo, Benjamin
AU  - Tan, Chin-Tuan
T2  - AES Convention 131
M1  - Paper 8479
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011/10/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=16005
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - The goal of this study was to use sinusoidal glide to investigatethe perceivableacoustic cues in a consonant-vowel /CV/ syllable systematically. The sinusoidal glide is designed to mimic the formant trajectory in a /CV/ syllable with two parts: a frequency glide followed by a constant frequency. The experiment varied the frequency step (with rising and falling glide) and duration of the initial part, and the center frequency and duration of the final part of the sinusoidal glide. We asked 6 normal hearing subjects to discriminate sinusoidal glides from sinusoids of constant frequency, and found that subjects require a larger frequency step when the duration of the glide is shortened but a smaller frequency step when the center frequency of the final part is lowered, to discriminate the two stimuli. The outcome of this experiment is compared to the outcomes of previous studies using synthesized formants and sinusoidal replicas.
ER  -