The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent age and gender would affect the voice parameters of native Mandarin Chinese speakers.Participants were required to produce sustained vowel/a/with comfortable...The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent age and gender would affect the voice parameters of native Mandarin Chinese speakers.Participants were required to produce sustained vowel/a/with comfortable pitch and loudness.From the speech samples,34 voice parameters were extracted by using Multi-Dimensional Voice Program(MDVP).The parameters were divided into several groups according to their correlation coefficients.Groups related to F0,to short-term perturbation of period and amplitude,to long-term variation of period and amplitude,to spectrum and to duration were found to be affected by age and gender.In each of them,one of the most important parameters was selected to represent the variation tendency with gender and age.Therefore,to estimate the degree of a voice deviation from normal,the factors of age and gender should be considered.The mean and variance of the parameters were given in this paper,and were compared according to their gender and age.Finally,a normative voice database was constructed for the reference of dysphonia diagnosis for Chinese.展开更多
基金supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.18BYY189)Major projects of Ministry of Education of China(No.17JJD740001).
文摘The purpose of this study was to investigate to what extent age and gender would affect the voice parameters of native Mandarin Chinese speakers.Participants were required to produce sustained vowel/a/with comfortable pitch and loudness.From the speech samples,34 voice parameters were extracted by using Multi-Dimensional Voice Program(MDVP).The parameters were divided into several groups according to their correlation coefficients.Groups related to F0,to short-term perturbation of period and amplitude,to long-term variation of period and amplitude,to spectrum and to duration were found to be affected by age and gender.In each of them,one of the most important parameters was selected to represent the variation tendency with gender and age.Therefore,to estimate the degree of a voice deviation from normal,the factors of age and gender should be considered.The mean and variance of the parameters were given in this paper,and were compared according to their gender and age.Finally,a normative voice database was constructed for the reference of dysphonia diagnosis for Chinese.
