Measures of continuous voicing related to voice quality in five-year-old-children
Mechtild Tronnier, Anita M. McAllister · 2008
The present investigation pursues the question whether the perceptual judgement of a child’s voice to sound hoarse can be correlated to the degree of non-periodical sections in the signal, based on the lack of regular oscillation of the vocal folds. The results show that this is not the case: children with clearly hoarse voices produce a stable and measurable fundamental frequency. In addition, the recording containing the highest number of periodicity is rated as the roughest voice and children who show a tendency toward unstable fundamental frequency are not perceptually evaluated as being particularly hoarse.