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[The investigation of formant on different artistic voice]
Jianqun Wang1, Xia Gao, Xiaozhou Liu
1Department of Otolaryngology, Drum Tower Hospital, Medical College of Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China. yfxj2008@sina.com
Objective:
To explore the characteristic of formant-a very important parameter in the spectrogram of three types of artistic voice (western mode; Chinese mode; Beijing opera).
Method:
We used MATLAB software to make the short-time Fourier transform and spectrogram analysis on the homeostasis vowel examples of the three types.
Result:
The western mode had different representation "singer formant" (Fs) based on the voice part; the Chinese mode's notable features were that F1, F2, F3, were continuous and the energy of them changed softly; the Beijing opera had the common representation which was a very wide formant and there was soft transition between formants and various harmonic, besides it showed a similar component like the "Fs" (two formants connected normally).
Conclusion:
Different artistic voice showed their own characteristics of the formant parameter in the spectrogram, which had important value on the identification, objective evaluation and prediction.
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