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The pitch of short-duration vibrato tones Export

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 95, No. 3. (1994), pp. 1617-1630.

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The pitch perceived for short vocal vibrato tones was measured using a method of adjustment. The stimuli were synthetic vocal tones, produced by a formant synthesizer. The main parameter under study was the tone duration, as a function of the fractional number of vibrato cycles. This parameter was examined in relation to (1) the vibrato extent (0, 50, 100, and 200 cents); (2) the vibrato rate (4, 6, and 8 Hz); (3) the tone nominal frequency (220, 440, 880, and 1500 Hz). Durations ranging from 1/2 cycle to 2 cycles were studied. Our results showed that for short tones, the pitch perceived does correspond to a weighted time average of the F0 pattern. A separate perception took place for the high and low parts of the vibrato cycles, for large vibrato extents or slow vibrato rates. This phenomenon was related consistently with the glissando threshold. A simple numerical model of weighted time averaging with threshold was proposed. It demonstrated a good agreement with our experimental data. Finally, the experimental results obtained, and the model proposed, were able to explain the musical perception of complex F0 patterns, like those present in actual singing.


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