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@article{citeulike:2204993, abstract = {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 frequency (220, 440, 880, and 1500 Hz). Durations from 1/2 cycle to 5 cycles were studied. Part of the results were obtained for a relatively large group of musically educated subjects (20 subjects), and another part for a small group of selected subjects. Our results show that: (a) for short tones, the pitch does correspond to a weighted time average of the F0 pattern (a numerical model of which is in accordance with this data); (b) the pitch mean between the extreme frequencies as the duration increases; (c) the overall pattern of F0 has an influence on perception, and some simple patterns seem to behave better perceptually; (d) perception may be ambiguous above a threshold of duration, which is related to the absolute threshold of pitch change and to the trill threshold. doi:10.1121/1.403139 PACS: 43.66.Hg, 43.75.Bc Additional Information myMax) { alert('You have selected '+ \_countChecked + ' articles. Please select no more than '+myMax+ ' articles at a time.'); err = 1;} /* of is the count too low */ else if(\_countChecked Article Options myArticles Shopping Cart - BibTeX - EndNote \® (generic) - EndNote \® (RIS) - Medline - Plain Text - RefWorks - BibTeX - EndNote \® (generic) - EndNote \® (RIS) - Medline - Plain Text - RefWorks \ \ View Cart}, author = {D'Alessandro, Christophe and Castellengo, Mich\`{e}le}, citeulike-article-id = {2204993}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JASMAN000091000004002434000003&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://link.aip.org/link/?JAS/91/2434}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.403139}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.403139}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.403139}, doi = {10.1121/1.403139}, journal = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America}, keywords = {jasa}, number = {4}, pages = {2434}, posted-at = {2008-01-07 21:23:48}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ASA}, title = {A parametric study on pitch of short vocal vibrato tones.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.403139}, volume = {91}, year = {1992} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2204993 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2204993 N2 - 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 frequency (220, 440, 880, and 1500 Hz). Durations from 1/2 cycle to 5 cycles were studied. Part of the results were obtained for a relatively large group of musically educated subjects (20 subjects), and another part for a small group of selected subjects. Our results show that: (a) for short tones, the pitch does correspond to a weighted time average of the F0 pattern (a numerical model of which is in accordance with this data); (b) the pitch mean between the extreme frequencies as the duration increases; (c) the overall pattern of F0 has an influence on perception, and some simple patterns seem to behave better perceptually; (d) perception may be ambiguous above a threshold of duration, which is related to the absolute threshold of pitch change and to the trill threshold. doi:10.1121/1.403139 PACS: 43.66.Hg, 43.75.Bc Additional Information myMax) { alert('You have selected '+ _countChecked + ' articles. Please select no more than '+myMax+ ' articles at a time.'); err = 1;} /* of is the count too low */ else if(_countChecked Article Options myArticles Shopping Cart - BibTeX - EndNote ® (generic) - EndNote ® (RIS) - Medline - Plain Text - RefWorks - BibTeX - EndNote ® (generic) - EndNote ® (RIS) - Medline - Plain Text - RefWorks   View Cart IS - 4 JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America EP - 2434 TI - A parametric study on pitch of short vocal vibrato tones. PB - ASA VL - 91 SP - 2434 KW - jasa AU - D'Alessandro, Christophe AU - Castellengo, Michèle PY - 1992/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.403139 ER -