@InProceedings{Tayal2017_252,
<br/>   author = {Sanya Tayal and Simon Stone and Peter Birkholz},
<br/>   booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2017},
<br/>   title = {Towards the measurement of the Actor’s Formant in female voices},
<br/>   year = {2017},
<br/>   editor = {Jürgen Trouvain and Ingmar Steiner and Bernd Möbius},
<br/>   month = mar,
<br/>   pages = {286--293},
<br/>   publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
<br/>   abstract  = {The Actor’s Formant in professional male actors has been a subject of
research for many years. It is a strong energy peak that lies in the frequency band
between 3-4 kHz in the long-term average spectrum (LTAS) of a professional male
actor’s voice. Results of perceptual analysis have shown that this concentration of
energy has a correlation with the perceived voice quality. While the Actor’s Formant
has been extensively studied in male subjects, there is little research pertaining to the
Actor’s Formant in female voices. The aim of this study is to show evidence of the
formation of an Actor’s Formant in the voices of females as a result of a short vocal
warm-up exercise. LTAS results of six female subjects are analyzed and a significant
increase in magnitudes of their spectra after the vocal warm up is observed in the
region of 4-5 kHz. The study also proposes an experimental method to measure
vocal tract transfer functions using transcutaneous excitation of vocal tract. The
resulting transfer functions of the subjects are plausible and encourage further studies
of formants in female actors and the general population as a whole using the
proposed method.},
<br/>   isbn = {978-3-959080-92-7},
<br/>   issn = {0940-6832},
<br/>   keywords = {Poster},
<br/>   url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2017_286_293.pdf},
<br/>}