Text intelligibility and the singer's formant--a relationship?
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Auteurs : Johan Sundberg [Suède] ; Camilla RomedahlSource :
- Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation ; 2009.
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A clear enunciation of consonants is crucial to text intelligibility, and consonants are identified by specific formant frequency patterns. The singer's formant, a spectral peak near 3,000 Hz, enhances the higher formants in male opera singers' voices. It is well known that the second and higher formants are crucial to text intelligibility. Therefore, it seams reasonable to hypothesize that the singer's formant increases intelligibility of consonants and hence also the intelligibility of the text. For the same reason, text intelligibility of musical theatre singers, who lack a singer's formant, could be assumed to be lower than that of opera singers.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2008.01.010
PubMed: 18468842
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