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Exam 1997 Question 6

"Write notes on ALL of the following: (a) speech pattern audiometry (50%) (b) creaky voice (25%) (c) harmonic synthesis (25%)."

20 things you should mention: 

  • Speech Pattern Audiometry
    • use of synthetic speech
    • presented at comfortable listening levels
    • to test abilities to identify
    • and discriminate simple speech sounds
    • use a continuum between two prototypes
    • categorisation ability/labelling ability
    • types of labelling behaviour
    • relate to perceptual ability
    • graphs
    • example stimuli
  • Creaky voice
    • irregular
    • low-pitched
    • folds slack but pressed
    • good closures/long closed phase
    • mix of long/short periods
  • Harmonic synthesis
    • generation of complex periodic waveforms
    • by addition of sinusoids
    • at harmonics frequencies (multiples) of Fx
    • need to control phase
    • results on spectrum/example


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