Presenter Deirdre D. Michael, Ph.D., CCC/SLP
Presentation Title Correlations Between Perceptual and Acoustic Measures of Voice Quality in Singers
Additional Authors Katherine Lindsay, B.A.; Susan Buesgens, M.A.; Jennifer Swanson, M.M.
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1 Ruth Rainero – I hope this is not the last word; I think this is very interesting and singing teachers can certainly use any tools we can get. I’m not surprised that the listeners had trouble deciding on strain, especially listening to recorded voices; especially for advanced singers, it is often hard to tell if this is a well grounded voice or a someone who is straining, you certainly have to see them. I’m a little concerned about using vibrato as a good and bad, and ever trying to rate vibrato as good and bad. It’s used in so many different ways, jazz singers use it as an ornament. There are extremely good classical singers …….. listen to audio link for more. Audio link.
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2 Ron Scherer – Your work really points out a real necessity that we have subcategorizing the strain, the roughness, perhaps vibrato, relative to physiology and morphological orientation. I was at a first a little surprised that the CPP correlates positively with the roughness. ….. listen to audio link for more. Audio link.
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3 Bob Heitzinger – 2 quick questions, I was just wondering how you established a baseline for where to start for your listeners, because when you listen to hours of auditions, after a while you go ‘gosh, I should have rated this person 3 people ago lot lower or higher in the scheme of things’. How did you figure out where they were going to start, and the second part of that is: since you saw the group was more reliable than the individual, then was there group think involved? Audio link.
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