Acoustic and Respiratory Measures as a Function of Age in the Male Voice

Selent, Mark

doi:10.4172/2471-9455.1000105

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“…Regarding pitch, our observations were first consistent with a pattern in which speaking f0 decreases for both male and female speakers from young adulthood until middle age, except for the fact that the shoulder in this continuous decrease occurred at earlier ages in the present study (40 and 36 for male and female speakers, respectively) than typically reported in the literature, i.e., around ages 50-65 (Baken 2005;Bier et al 2017;Cox and Selent 2015). Second, we replicated the rise in speaking fundamental frequency expected from male speakers over 60, typically associated with vocal fold atrophy and histological changes (Harnsberger et al 2008;Torre and Barlow 2009;Dehqan and Scherer 2013), but not the fall for female speakers that-when observed-is associated with increased vocal fold mass due to edema, loss of muscle tone, ossification and/or hormonal changes (Kreiman and Sidtis 2011).…”

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Multi-Dimensional Variation in Adult Speech as a Function of Age

2021

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We present a multidimensional acoustic report describing variation in speech productions on data collected from 500 francophone adult speakers (20 to 93 y.o.a.) as a function of age. In this cross-sectional study, chronological age is considered as a continuous variable while oral productions, in reading and speech-like tasks, are characterized via 22 descriptors related to voice quality, pitch, vowel articulation and vocalic system organization, time-related measures and temporal organization, as well as maximal performances in speech-like tasks. In a first analysis, we detail how each descriptor varies according to the age of the speaker, for male and female speakers separately. In a second analysis, we explore how chronological age is, in turn, predicted by the combination of all descriptors. Overall, results confirm that with increasing age, speakers show more voice instability, sex-dependent pitch changes, slower speech and articulation rates, slower repetition rates and less complexity effects in maximal performance tasks. A notable finding of this study is that some of these changes are continuous throughout adulthood while other appear either at old age or in early adulthood. Chronological age appears only moderately indexed in speech, mainly through speech rate parameters. We discuss these results in relation with the notion of attrition and with other possible factors at play, in an attempt to better capture the multidimensional nature of the notion of “age”.

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Multi-Dimensional Variation in Adult Speech as a Function of Age

2021

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“…In contrast, the men had a trend of slight increases in f o between each of the age cohorts but the changes were not statistically significant. Previous studies reporting increased f o in men include: Cox and Selent, (2015)[43], Nishio and Niimi (2008)[44], along with three studies cited in Table 3. Previous studies reporting decreased f o in women include Nishio and Niimi (2008) [44] and several studies cited in Table 3.…”

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Effects of Aging on Vocal Fundamental Frequency and Vowel Formants in Men and Women

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“…Secondly, several research studies have attempted to acoustically measure the aging analysis using cross-sectional data i.e. by comparing categories of age groups from young to elderly wherein the participants (speakers or the singers) differ in the age subgroups [10,22,17,23]. But the physiological differences among the participants can affect the measurement of age dependent impacts on acoustic parameters.…”

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A Longitudinal Ageing Analysis of Vocal Parameters of Singing Voice of Female Playback Singer

Loni,

Subbaraman

2020

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Age-related changes to the vocal structure affect the singing ability of the singer. We present a longitudinal study of vocal ageing of a female professional playback singer having more than six decades of singing span (covering singer age from 19 to 80 years). The ageing analysis is performed on six vocal parameters like – fundamental frequency (F0), vibrato, formants and spectral features like spectral roll-off and centroid. Statistical variations in these vocal parameters over the entire singing span of the singer are discussed in the paper. Significant effects noted with the ageing voice were - decrease in F0, decreased vocal range, reduction in vibrato rate, increase in vibrato extent, decrease in F2 & F4 formants and rapid change in the spectral features. This investigation also studied the effect of ageing on singing voice quality through the measurement of singing power ratio (SPR). Increase in SPR measures was observed with ageing voice. The study of impact of vocal ageing with longitudinal data on singer identification (SID) is scare. The SID experimentation performed with 350 cappella songs covering entire singing span of the singer, showed a clear impact that change in acoustical parameters with ageing affected the performance of singer identification systems.

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Acoustic and Respiratory Measures as a Function of Age in the Male Voice

Cited by 8 publications

References 43 publications

Multi-Dimensional Variation in Adult Speech as a Function of Age

Multi-Dimensional Variation in Adult Speech as a Function of Age

Effects of Aging on Vocal Fundamental Frequency and Vowel Formants in Men and Women

A Longitudinal Ageing Analysis of Vocal Parameters of Singing Voice of Female Playback Singer

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