The Study of the Fundamental Frequencies of Different Speech Materials for Normal Adults
10.3969/j.issn.1006-7299.2015.06.002
- VernacularTitle:正常青年人不同语料测试基频的研究
- Author:
Hakyung KIM
;
Fengyun ZHAO
;
Xiaoming LIU
;
Zaoming HUANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Fundamental frequency;
Vowel;
Paragraph
- From:
Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology
2015;(6):575-577
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective This study is to analyze the fundamental frequencies of different speech materials . Methods 60 normal subjects (22 males ,38 females) were studied .When pronouncing /a/,/i/,/u/and the short paragraphs ,the fundamental frequencies were measured using Praat software .Results The analysis of the funda‐mental frequencies for different materials indicates that /i/and /u/were the highest while /a/was the next and the paragraphs were the lowest .For males ,the fundamental frequencies from high to low were:148 .47 Hz ,146 .77 Hz ,136 .33 Hz ,and 132 .85 Hz ;for females ,they were:257 .39 Hz ,250 .52 Hz ,239 .43 Hz and 222 .16 Hz .The experimental results showed that there was no significant difference between the fundamental frequencies of vowels between the two genders but there were significant differences when pronouncing different vowels among the female subjects .Conclusion When measuring fundamental frequencies ,reading short paragraphs can be more accurate and the vowel /a/is more useful in this purpose .
