A FACTOR ANALYSIS OF TWELVE PHYSICAL MEASURES OF VOICE.

Abstract

The following four factors emerged from the analyses: time, power, power variability, and pitch variability. Although the importance of vocal intensity and syllable duration in voice intelligibility are well recognized, the findings of this study indicate that pitch variability and power (intensity) variability are also important to good voice communications. Consequently, communications training programs designed to improve speech intelligibility should include instruction and drill in these variables. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 18, 1957
Accession Number
AD0639106

Entities

People

  • J. W. Asher
  • M. D. Steer
  • T. D. Hanley

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Science
  • Factor Analysis
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Instructions
  • Intelligibility
  • Intensity
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Language
  • Speech
  • Syllables
  • Training
  • Voice Communications

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Theoretical Analysis.