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The pitch of vibrato tones: a model based on instantaneous frequency decomposition
1Laboratorio de Acústica y Percepción Sonora, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
We study vibrato as the more ubiquitous manifestation of a nonstationary tone that can evoke a single overall pitch. Some recent results using nonsymmetrical vibrato tones suggest that the perceived pitch could be governed by some stability-sensitive mechanism. For nonstationary sounds the adequate tools are time-frequency representations (TFRs). We show that a recently proposed TFR could be the simplest framework to explain this hypothetical stability-sensitive mechanism. We propose a one-parameter model within this framework that is able to predict previously reported results and we present new results obtained from psychophysical experiments performed in our laboratory.
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