> At 11:27 08/01/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >You'll be glad to hear that the four phrases Mark (re)recorded in December
> >in his new, nonbreathy voice are all much more amenable to acoustic
> >analysis. Still room for improvement in one, but the other three pretty
> >much perfect. So, Ali and I are very happy for him to be The Voice if he
> >feels he can keep up that level of nonbreathiness.-- Hope that's not too
> >difficult, Mark!
>
> Do you think it would help if I wore headphones playing some masking
> noise during recording? That might increase my vocal effort.
It's an interesting idea. My initial reaction is that it might produce
undesirable "clear speech" effects. I THINK we're probably looking for
clear but not hyperspeech. It would also make it difficult if we have to
end up doing dialog to get the recordings. I'm perfectly content with what
you produced when we were together, so if you think you ccan keep that up
(and I;d expect you could, with practice) then I'd say let's keep it
simple.
Perhaps others would like to consider the idea?
Sarah
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