CORRELATES OF TEMPORAL HIGH-RESOLUTION FIRST FORMANT ANALYSIS AND GLOTTAL EXCITATION

Manfred Pützer1 & Wolfgang Wokurek2
1Institut für Phonetik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken; 2Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart

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This preliminary study visualizes the glottal excitation in a temporally highly resolved estimate of the first formant. Instantaneous estimates of the frequency and bandwidth of the first formant closely follow the electroglottographic contour. This is demonstrated for modal, breathy, and hoarse phonation of an [a:] produced by one male and one female speaker. The temporally highly resolved formant contours show glottal features such as the different durations of the open phase and fundamental frequency and/or amplitude perturbations of the vocal fold vibration. Keywords: linear prediction, electroglottography