The sound of senescence.
This paper draws together findings of recent studies examining changes in voice with aging. Listeners' accuracy in perceiving age from voice is discussed, along with changes in speaking fundamental frequency, fundamental frequency stability, temporal aspects of speech, and resonance features of voice with aging. Descriptions are provided of differences in glottal gap configuration as a function of age and gender. In addition, acoustic/temporal measures that have been demonstrated to correlate with perceived age estimates are presented.
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Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA.
D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D014827:Vocal Cords / Q000502:physiology; D014831:Voice / Q000502:physiology; D014833:Voice Quality