The voice source in connected speech

Abstract This is an attempt to formulate an outline of the properties of the human voice source in connected speech. Six aspects of the production process are considered: (1) reference data for a particular speaker; (2) segment specific values and source-tract interactions; (3) coarticulation of glottal gestures and interpolation at boundaries; (4) basic F0 dependencies; (5) the influence of stress, accents and voice intensity; (6) the phrasal contour of source variations. The parameterization of source data is based on the transformed LF-model and frequency domain correspondences (Fant, 1995) which allows for a maximal specificational power with a limited number of parameters.

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