Abberton, E; (2002) Aspects of voice quality in women. In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Speech Sciences, Seoul, Korea. (pp. 128 - 131). Korean Association of Speech Sciences (KASS): Seoul, Korea.

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Abstract

Voice quality is a multi-dimensional component of fluent speech determined both culturally and physiologically. This paper presents some results of a study of the voices of forty four 20-year-old female speakers of British English. Anechoic acoustic and electro-laryngograph recordings were made of a 2-minute read text, and analysed using Laryngograph® Speech Studio software to provide information on vocal fold contact ratios on the basis of ELG/EGG transconductance variation. These analyses can be related to the perceived breathiness of a voice. Fewer than half of the speakers (43%) had lower contact ratios at the upper end of their fundamental frequency ranges than at the lower end (correlating with a breathier voice at higher pitches); 25% of the speakers showed the opposite pattern, and for the remaining 32%, contact ratios varied symmetrically across the speaker’s voice pitch range.

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