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Clayne Robison– Show the young
man again – there are major differences that you can see and
hear that come to my ear and eye, it’s very clear. This is
a wonderful replication of my 1994 study. First, look at one of the
beginning notes, the ease and regularity of the vibrato; that vibrato
in that second note is erratic. Then on the second sample, you can
see that there is a stronger band in the singers formant area …. [further
discussion in the audio link]. Audio
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Marina Gilman – I’m a speech pathologist, voice teacher
and Feldenkrais practitioner, so I applaud you for the work you’ve
begun. One of the things that is inherent in the Feldenkrais method
is somatic education and somatic learning, so it is important that
this isn’t taken as a quick fix that you can go in and take
these mini-lessons. Typically a Feldenkrais lesson is 45 minutes
so people really have a chance to digest the learning that goes
on. [listen to the audio link for further discussion on the Feldenkrais
method.] Audio link. |
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Garyth Nair – I don’t have anything to add to this
other than what was said by the first speaker at the microphone, other than when
the young man sang in the 2nd sample, I heard, before I ever saw
the spectrograph, the difference in at least 3 places. To the eye
who’s been staring at this to the point where one gets a form
of snow blindness which we call S-blindness, spectrograph blindness,
the differences are quite subtle, but they really are there. You
might have gotten what you wanted, but the subtlety in the interpretation
isn’t there yet. Audio
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Linda Carroll – It’s wonderful to start having sung data out
there to validate the changes in function as a result of training
or the result of therapy. One of the things that I think it is easy
to fall into, I think there’s a "speech pathology camp" and
a "voice teacher camp". I think as voice teachers we are commonly
just looking at what’s happening in the vowel, "just look
at the vowel." I think that for some individuals and
some types of training, that you are going to see those differences
in the vowel, but I think that we can’t forget for a moment
that there are critical effects that can happen with the consonants.
In terms of differences pre to post, especially in your female singer,
it appears that although she may not have had dramatic differences (again, you haven’t
sorted through everything acoustically), there may not be huge differences
in what’s happening acoustically in the vowel, but there certainly
is in the consonant [….listen to the audio link for remaining
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Eric Hunter– looks good, I hope it goes well for you, a couple
questions. First, the microphone that was on the table, I imagine
it was the one hooked up to the computer for Voce Vista, do you
have specs on that? ... Just a few observations about if you are
going to do spectral analysis in detail, you have to really be careful
in your microphones, especially the little ones on the desk like
that. Especially in the one sample there, the woman clipped and
that will really kill your spectral stuff. …..Also, really
watch your sound card, voce vista works through the sound card.
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