A comparison of voice production types of

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A comparison of voice production types of
western overtone singing and South Siberian
throat singing

• Sven Grawunder
• University of Halle, Germany
• Institute for Speech Science and Phonetics
• XVth ICPhS, Barcelona, T.6.83

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South Siberia
Bashkir
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Voice production types in throat singing

• AES-VF1 (höömei-type)
• AES-VF2 (sygyt-type (whistle))

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höömej sygyt-Type (AES-VF)
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Voice production types in throat singing

• AES-VF1 (höömei-type)
• AES-VF2 (sygyt-type)

• AEF-VF1 (kargyraa1)
• VTF-VF (kargyraa2)
• AEF-VTF (-VF) (kargyraa3)
• AEF-VF2 ??? (höömei-kargyraa)

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kargyraa-Type (AEF)
Croaking, growling voice
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Voice production types in overtone singing

• Modal Voice
• Mod1 Mod2
• (tensed)
• Strohbass, vocal fry
• Creaky v. vocal fry pulse reg.
• (smooth vocal fry)

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field sites
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Intention

• Methodology
• non-invasive
• field site appropriate
• affordable
• promising
• finding significant characteristics for the
  description of the source

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VoiceEGGSubglottal Pressure Wave
signals
vx
lx
sx
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Gall, Berg (1998) Glottal Segmentation Neumann,
Gall, Schutte, Miller (2003), J.o.V, 17/2
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Data 1

• 2 overtone singers (D, NL)
• 2 Tuvan throat singers (out of 15)
• all semi-professional

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Data 2

• Sustained vowels
• Sequences of 2,5-3s
• scaling up and down (reinforced harmonic scale)

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AES-VF
MoV
pulse
AEF-VF
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Lx-shapes
Mod2
AEF-VF1
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Lx-shapes2
fry
AEF-VF
pulse
AEF-VTF
creaky
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1,4ms delay
aua
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discussion

• More detailed informations needed
• structure influence on lx
• laryngoscopic observation of vibration patterns
• work on
• bandwidths
• SQ