title: Discussant response to 'Does the acoustic waveform mirror the voice?'.
abstract: The acoustic waveform that reaches the two ears of a listener can convey the intended message. Over the telephone, this waveform is the only source of information from the speaker, since the listener is out of visual contact; indeed, in this situation the acoustic waveform itself is restricted in its frequency content. Whilst the listener can infer much about the speaker from the acoustic waveform, including the speaker's age, gender, nationality, dialect, and emotional state, the issue under consideration here is the extent to which quantitative analysis of the acoustic waveform can provide useful information about a speaker's voice. This paper was presented as an Invited Discussant Response, at the Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVOC6) in London, to the question posed in Ternström's Invited Keynote Lecture 1: Does the acoustic waveform mirror the voice?
authors.affiliation: Media Engineering Research Group, Department of Electronics, University of York, UK. d.h@ohm.york.ac.uk
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Howard
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D014827:Vocal Cords / Q000502:physiology*; D014831:Voice