title: Towards a method for loudness-based analysis of the sound of one's own voice.
abstract: This paper outlines the steps in objectively estimating the time-varying loudness of one's own voice in a room (i.e. autophonic loudness). Voice recordings, made with a near-mouth microphone, are converted to the sound that reaches the two eardrums of the talking (or singing)-listener by convolving them with the impulse responses from the mouth to the respective ears of an anthropomorphic head and torso. The influences of bone-conducted sound and room reflections are taken into account. These convolved recordings are then processed with a computational time-varying loudness model. The method is demonstrated by a short case study, and the results illustrate something of the benefit of loudness analysis over sound pressure level analysis for representing autophonic loudness.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney , NSW, 2006 , Australia.
authors.forename: Manuj
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yadav
authors.forename: Densil
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cabrera
authors.forename: Dianna T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Kenny
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000162:Acoustics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011312:Pressure; D012649:Self Concept; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D063346:Singing; D013016:Sound; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Autophonic perception; loudness analysis; messa di voce; room gain; sound pressure level