18
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Intonation and fundamental frequency in male-to-female transsexuals.

      The Journal of speech and hearing disorders
      Adult, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Sex Characteristics, Speech, Speech Acoustics, Speech Perception, Transsexualism, physiopathology, Voice

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Twenty speakers, diagnosed as male-to-female transsexuals, produced conversational recordings of speech and voice. The samples were submitted to perceptual evaluations and to acoustic analysis by means of a Visi-Pitch, Apple IIe microcomputer system. Transsexuals categorized as having female voices had higher fundamental frequencies (fo), less extensive downward intonations, a higher percentage of upward intonations and downward shifts, and a smaller percentage of level intonations and level shifts than transsexuals categorized as having male voices. The lowest average fo identified as belonging to a female speaker was 155 Hz. Higher (more feminine) ratings on the masculinity-femininity dimension correlated with fo (r = .89), percentage of level shifts (r = -.67), percentage of downward shifts (r = .50), percentage of level intonations (r = -.43), and percentage of upward intonations (r = .40). Findings are discussed in terms of the relative perceptual salience of average fundamental frequency and patterns of intonation for female voice quality.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          2299839
          10.1044/jshd.5501.43

          Chemistry
          Adult,Humans,Male,Middle Aged,Sex Characteristics,Speech,Speech Acoustics,Speech Perception,Transsexualism,physiopathology,Voice

          Comments

          Comment on this article