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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>we would like to invite you to a talk of Jean Schoentgen from the
École polytechnique de Bruxelles next tuesday, 27.11., 14:00h, in
the Seminar Room (ground floor) of the Acoustics Research
Institute at Wohllebengasse 12-14, 1040 Wien. See below for the
abstract and/or click the link for more information
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1070:jean-schoentgen&catid=44&lang=de&Itemid=671">https://www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1070:jean-schoentgen&catid=44&lang=de&Itemid=671</a>)</p>
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float: none;">The object of the presentation is an overview of
human voice quality. The latter designates the speaker-typical
acoustical background that is quasi permanent in the speech of
human subjects. The coexistence of a lasting speaker-distinctive
background with a communicative foreground in the same frequency
band is explained in terms of phonatory and vocal tract settings
that bias the quasi-totality of speech sounds emitted by a human
speaker. Vocal settings are categorised with regard to a
bias-free neutral setting. The latter implicitly defines
‘normal’ speech and guides the investigation and methodical
presentation of non-neutral voice qualities because the latter
may be made to differ from neutral in terms by one acoustic
attribute or vibratory pattern at a time. The presentation is
based on auditory demonstrations that illustrate non-neutral
voice qualities in disordered speech or voice as well as their
use for artistic purposes. Examples of settings that are
discussed are the co-vibration of the true with auxiliary
laryngeal folds (e.g. growling, trilling, harshness), vocal
registers (e.g. creak, modal, falsetto), breathiness and
roughness, pressed and lax voice as well as glottal
reinforcement in German that illustrates the difficulties naive
listeners may experience distinguishing voice quality from
distinctive properties of speech sounds</span></p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Nicola Klingler<br>
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Nicola Klingler, MA
Institut für Schallforschung/Acoustics Research Institute
Gruppe Phonetik/Phonetics
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Wohllebengasse 12-14, 1040 Wien </pre>
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