Age-related changes in fundamental frequency and formants: a longitudinal study of four speakers

Jonathan Harrington; Sallyanne Palethorpe; Catherine I. Watson

Age-related changes in fundamental frequency and formants: a longitudinal study of four speakers

Jonathan Harrington^*, Sallyanne Palethorpe, Catherine I. Watson

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Abstract

The study is concerned with a longitudinal acoustic analysis of two sets of recordings from the same four speakers over an interval of between 29 and 50 years. The aim was to determine whether there is any evidence for age-related acoustic changes. Our analysis showed that the same speakers have lower f0, a lower F1, a marginally lower F2, and an unchanging or sometimes higher F3 in their later recordings. There is some suggestion from these data that the change in F1-f0 in Bark from earlier to late recordings is proportional to the change in F3-F2 in Bark. This suggests that there is shift in the speaker space roughly along a diagonal in the phonetic height x backness plane with increasing age.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Interspeech 2007
Subtitle of host publication	8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Vols 1-4
Place of Publication	France
Publisher	ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC
Pages	1081-1084
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781605603162
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	Interspeech Conference 2007 - Antwerp, Belgium Duration: 27 Aug 2007 → 31 Aug 2007

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Conference	Interspeech Conference 2007
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Antwerp
Period	27/08/07 → 31/08/07

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ENGLISH
VOWELS
PRONUNCIATION

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Harrington, J, Palethorpe, S & Watson, CI 2007, Age-related changes in fundamental frequency and formants: a longitudinal study of four speakers. in Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Vols 1-4. ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC, France, pp. 1081-1084, Interspeech Conference 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, 27/08/07.

Interspeech 2007: 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Vols 1-4. France : ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC, 2007. p. 1081-1084.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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