title: Noh voice quality.
abstract: In Noh, a traditional performing art of Japan, extremely expressive voice quality is used to convey an emotional message. A periodicity of voice appears responsible for these special effects. Acoustic signals were recorded for selected portions of dramatic singing in order to study the acoustic effects of delicate voice control by a master of the Konparu school. Using a signal analysis-synthesis algorithm, TANDEM-STRAIGHT, to represent multiple candidates for pitch perception, signals deviating from the harmonic structure have been successfully displayed, corresponding to auditory impressions of pitch movements, even when narrow-band spectrograms failed to show the perceived events. Strong interaction between vocal tract resonance and vocal fold vibration seems to play a major role in producing these expressive voice qualities.
authors.affiliation: The Ohio State University, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Columbus, OH 43210-1002, USA. osamu.fujimura@gmail.com
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fujimura
authors.forename: Kiyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Honda
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawahara
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Konparu
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morise
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001154:Art; D001307:Auditory Perception; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010699:Phonation; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D014732:Vibration; D014831:Voice; D014833:Voice Quality