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Landon, Rocky. "Voice, whose voice is it, anyway?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ31220.pdf.
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MacFarlane, Andrew Euan. "Voice activated : exploring the effects of voices on behaviours." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9682.
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Decades of priming research have revealed that environmental stimuli feed into our behaviours, often without any awareness of our using this information to guide our behaviour. This has been shown using plentiful stimuli across multiple contexts. One of the most socially rich stimuli in our environment is voice, and yet this has featured surprisingly little in behavioural research, particularly within social psychology. This thesis was written as a step towards addressing this gap, and it explores how voices might affect particular behaviours in different contexts.
Three broad experiments, each with their own sub-experiments, investigated how voices, acting as proxies for social categories, could influence one's behaviour. In the first experiment, the responses to socially themed statements were influenced by the sex of the voice presenting those statements. Female voices primed more agreement to these statements than did male voices. In the second experiment, judgements of ambiguous stimuli and questions were also affected by voices, albeit in less clear ways. In the third experiment, the reaction times of participants were again affected by voices. Younger participants' reaction times were slower when listening to an older voice, and older participants' reaction times were faster when listening to an older voice. Across these three experiments, I found too that the presence of a voice led to task differences compared to when voice was absent.
The combination of these experiments is, to my knowledge, the first to look at voice-based behavioural priming. How these results fit with selected existing theories, the potential to specify theories based on these results, and the possible practical applications of voice based priming are discussed.
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Jarman-Ivens, Freya. "Breaking voices : voice, subjectivity and fragmentation in popular music." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/234.
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Four case studies from 'mainstream' popular music are used to explore the voice as a primary site for the construction of meaning in popular music, both as a vehicle for language and as an 'object' outside of or alongside language. The first chapter argues that the extensive use of overdubbing technology by the Carpenters forms part of their relationship with the 'geno-song', and that the cyborgian voice which emerges from such use of technology disrupts human-centred psychoanalytic models of subjective development. Finally, different recordings of 'Superstar' are analysed to show how different recordings of a song negotiate ideas of 'presence'. The second chapter outlines various sexually queer subjects presented by Madonna, and argues that the process of constant transformation challenges hegemonic Western notions of a unified 'self'. The chapter also argues that musical factors have underpinned her visual transformations, and that her vocality has suggested her maturation as an artist and challenged the ideology of 'voice' as a stable signifier of identity. A chapter on Eminem explores his simultaneous use of three distinct characters to play out different aspects of his own identity, and how his work represents and constructs masculinity. Specifically, the chapter argues that the use of language as a system does not easily parallel the masculinist content of the lyrics, but can instead be aligned with traditionally 'feminine' or feminising modes of writing. Moreover, according to a traditional gendered musical semiotics, the interface between language and music does not underline 'masculinity' in normative ways. The final chapter considers how ideas of 'self' and Other are negotiated in Elvis Impersonation. In particular, a model for understanding vocal impersonation is offered, using Freud's model of the ideal ego and Baudrillard's orders of simulacra. Finally, the chapter explores the representation and construction of masculinities in various examples of Elvis Impersonation.
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Nevard, Teresa. "Exploring voice hearers' relationships with their voices : can voices serve an adaptive function?" Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2015. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/56863/.
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Background Voice hearers’ relationships with their voices can mirror their wider social relating (e.g. Paulik, 2012). Research has found a relationship between social isolation and beliefs about voices being benevolent (e.g. Favrod et al., 2004). Attachment style impacts on aspects on the voice hearing experience (e.g. Berry et al., 2012) but no previous study has used a measure of attachment to investigate voice hearers’ relationship with their voices. Aims To investigate whether voice hearers develop attachment bonds with their voices, and whether this relates to general attachment style, social isolation and dependence on the voice. Method 83 voice hearers were recruited online. Measures were: The Experiences in Close Relationships Revised (ECR-R), Dependence Scale of Voice and You (VAY), Reciprocal Attachment Questionnaire (RAQ), the Frequency and Distress items from the Hamilton Programme for Schizophrenia Voices Questionnaire (HPSVQ), UCLA Loneliness Scale, and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). Narrative information was also collected. Analysis A cross-sectional correlational design was used with additional content analysis of the narrative data. Doctoral Thesis: Exploring voice hearers’ relationships Teresa Nevard with their voices: Can voices serve an adaptive function? ii Results Initial evidence was found of attachment bonds to voices in a proportion of voice hearers. Voice hearers with high attachment anxiety reported greater fear of losing their voice. Correlations between attachment to voice and loneliness lost significance after post hoc adjustment and controlling for low mood. As this is the first study using a measure of attachment for relationships with voices it is important to interpret the results with caution. Conclusion The research highlights the importance of considering individuals relationships with their voices. It is hoped that the results of this research will lead to further investigation of attachment bonds with voices and the elucidation of how general attachment style and social isolation impacts on this. Further investigation of this could lead to clinical benefits for voice hearers who are distressed by their voices.
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Castro, Maria. "Women's voices : a gendered analysis of the voice-hearing experience." Thesis, University of East London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532553.
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Wang, Hans S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Voice wars : smart speakers, voice assistants, and strategies for building a successful voice ecosystem." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122259.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2019<br>Page 99 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-98).<br>In recent years, voice-powered digital assistants have exploded into the consumer mainstream as an important new form of human-computer interaction. Powered by dramatic improvements in speech recognition and artificial intelligence (Al) technologies over the last decade, digital voice assistants are now abundantly prevalent in modem consumer electronic devices ranging from mobile phones, to smart speakers, to wearables. As the technology matures and the availability of big data used by digital assistants proliferates, voice will soon become a primary modality by which people interact and accomplish tasks. Many of these tasks will be accomplished in consumer homes and digital voice assistants present a significant new opportunity where voice and the physical home intersect to dramatically reshape how consumers live in their home.<br>This also represents a tremendous opportunity for companies in the digital assistant industry, and, in order to successfully leverage this nascent technology, they will need to understand both their own strategic goals as well as their direct and indirect competitors' strategies in building a business ecosystem around voice-first digital assistants. A fierce struggle has begun - not just amongst current technology titans (i.e. Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft), but also involving key incumbent players in the home media and electronics industry (e.g. Samsung, Sonos, Bang & Olufsen).<br>The goals of this thesis, with respect to the current industry leaders in the digital assistant and smart home space, are to 1) understand the current landscape of the digital assistant voice ecosystem, 2) elucidate each major players' current voice-powered digital assistant platform strategy, 3) analyze the consumer adoption, selection, and diffusion mechanisms for digital voice assistants in the consumer smart home, and 4) determine what the likely outcomes are for each major player as well as the likelihood of success and associated risks with the current ecosystem and platforming strategies employed. Finally, through additional market analysis and industry projections, strategic recommendations will be presented to guide each key player over the next decade. Following these recommendations will be key to winning the digital assistant voice wars and for creating a successful and sustainable voice technology ecosystem in the personal digital assistant market.<br>by Hans Wang.<br>S.M. in Engineering and Management<br>S.M.inEngineeringandManagement Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program
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Charest, Ian. "Hierarchical organisation of voice and voice gender perception." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1681/.
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The most important sound in our auditory environment is the human voice. Voice professionals, whether they are teachers, radio hosts, sport coaches, use their voice on a everyday basis to earn their living and communicate information and knowledge. We grow up spending most of our time everyday listening to voices in school, at the sports club, on t.v., etc. So much that by the time we are adults, voice plays a major role in our everyday social interactions. Yet, while extensive research has been conducted on speech perception voice alone has only just started generating more and more interest in the cognitive neuroscience research community. Voice is not "just" a speech carrier, it conveys rich paralinguistic information such as gender, age, identity or affective state. A theoretical model which emphasises the similarities between face and voice processing was recently introduced, suggesting a serial and parallel processing pathway of voice information leading to high level cognitive processes like person identification. Globally this model of voice processing suggests an extraction of low-level acoustic features, followed by a voice structural encoding leading to parallel pathways for the recognition of speech, affect and identity related information. Furthermore, this model suggested potential interactions with face perception pathways. In this thesis, I investigated two different stages of this voice perception model. First, little is known about the speed at which the distinction between vocal and non-vocal sounds is performed, i.e. is there a time-frame where the "voice structural analysis" would occur. Using electroencephalography, we conducted an experiment in order to delineate this voice vs. non-voice perception time-frame. I observed an early electro-physiological response preferential to voice stimuli, emerging around 164 ms on fronto-temporal electrodes FC5 and FC6 which was termed the "fronto-temporal positivity to voice". Second, little is known about the neural basis behind the perception of paralinguistic information such as identity, gender or affective state contained in the human voice. I used voice gender as a tool to investigated the "voice recognition units" stage of the voice perception model. The cognitive processes behind voice gender perception are still under debate, and more precisely, the nature of the representation of voice gender, whether it is organised around low level acoustical discriminants, or relies on high level categorical representations still remains unclear. Voice gender continua can be created in order to parametrically control the degree of gender contained in voice. I investigated the importance of low level acoustic features using the recently developed auditory morphing algorithms. I averaged 32 male and 32 female voices in order to "approximate" a prototypical voice for each gender. From those prototypes, I generated caricatures by exaggerating the acoustical properties of the male prototype in reference to the female prototype. Those voice composites were included along with 3 pairs of male and female voice exemplars in a voice gender adaptation experiment. I observed significantly stronger perceptual after-effects caused by adaptation from the voice gender caricatures. This result provides evidence for a determinant role of the low level acoustical features in our ability to perceive the gender of a voice. Finally, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), I investigated whether brain regions of the auditory cortex are sensitive to voice gender, voice gender adaptation, and whether a dissociation between extraction of acoustical features and higher level, perceptual representations could be achieved. I used voice gender continua and an event-related fMRI design called the continuous carry-over design to assess these working hypotheses. I observed a covariation between BOLD signal and the degree of acoustical differences in consecutive voices in the anterior part of the right superior temporal sulcus, where the extraction of voice gender related acoustical features occurs. Furthermore, I observed a higher level network involving the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus, the insula and the anterior cingulate cortex where a summary of acoustical features would be input from auditory areas enabling a voice gender categorisation.
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Ferrell, Rosemary Kaye. "Voice in Screenwriting: Discovering/Recovering an Australian Voice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2004.
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This creative practice research explores the concept of an identifiable screenwriter’s voice from the perspective of screenwriting as craft, proposing that voice can be understood and described based on its particular characteristics. Voice is understood to be the authorial presence of the screenwriter, whose mind shapes every aspect of the text. This presence is inscribed in the text through the many choices the screenwriter makes. More than this, the research argues that the choices made inflect the text with a cultural-national worldview. This occurs because of the close association between voice and personal (including cultural/national) identity, and because of the power of textual elements to signify broader concepts, ideas and phenomena belonging to the actual world.
The thesis includes an original feature film screenplay evidencing a particular Australian voice, and an exegesis which describes voice and national inflection more fully. The practice research began with the interrogation of voice in a previously-existing screenplay which, though an original work written by an Australian screenwriter – myself – was described as having an American voice. Voice and its mechanisms were then further investigated through the practice of writing the original screenplay, Calico Dreams. Theories of voice from within literary theory, and the concept of mind-reading, from cognitive literary theory, acted as departure points in understanding voice in screenwriting. Through such understanding a conceptual framework which can assist practitioners and others to locate aspects of voice within a screenplay, was designed. This framework is a major research outcome and its use is illustrated through the description of voice in the screenplay, Calico Dreams.
The research found that screenwriter’s voice serves to unify and cohere the screenplay text as an aesthetic whole through its stylistic continuities and particularities. Through the voice, the screenwriter also defines many of the attributes and characteristics of the film-to-be. A theory of screenwriter’s voice significantly shifts the theoretical landscape for screenwriting at a time when an emerging discourse of screenwriting is developing which can enrich understandings of the relationship between the screenplay and its film.
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Williams, Bonnie Blu. "An Investigation of Selected Female Singing- and Speaking-Voice Characteristics Through Comparison of a Group of Pre-Menarcheal Girls to a Group of Post-Menarcheal Girls." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330681/.
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The purpose of this study was to compare the speaking fundamental frequency, physiological vocal range, singing voice quality, and self-perceptions of the singing and speaking voice between two groups of girls ages 11 through 15 years, who were pre-menarcheal by 6 months and post-menarcheal by 10 months or more.
Subjects were volunteers who attended a North Texas public school system. Each subject was examined by an otolaryngologist. Age, height, weight, a hearing screening, and information on music classes and/or private music lessons were obtained.
The speaking fundamental frequency measure was obtained by having each subject speak for 30 seconds on a subject of choice and read a passage of approximately 100 syllables. The vocal range measure was obtained by having each subject begin at an arbitrary pitch and sing mah and moo up the scale as high as possible and mah and moo down the scale as low as possible. These four measures were repeated with the researcher giving visual gestures.
For singing-voice quality, each subject sang "America" in the key of her choice and again in the key of F major. Each subjects singing voice was rated according to breathiness. Data regarding self-perceptions of the singing and speaking voice were obtained through a rating assessment of 10 questions and a conversation with each subject.
There were no significant differences between the means of the pre-meanarcheal and post-menarcheal girls on speaking fundamental frequency, physiological vocal range, and singing-voice quality. But, more of the post-menarcheal girls exhibited lower speaking pitches, lower singing ranges, and increased breathiness in their singing voices than did the pre-menarcheal girls.
Two questions of the perceptions rating assessment were significant, with the post-menarcheal girls citing higher incidences of vocal inconsistencies than the pre-menarcheal girls. The findings of the qualitative data analysis indicated that more post-menarcheal girls had an adequate vocabulary to describe various aspects of their singing and speaking voices than did the pre-menarcheal girls.
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Pagan, Ellen M. "College choir directors' and voice instructors' techniques for classifying female voices." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1237398533.
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Orphanidou, Christina. "Voice Morphing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491672.
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Voice Morphing is the process of modifying a source speaker's speech so that it is perceived as if uttered by a target speaker. The numerous applications of this technology have made it a very popular research topic with most approaches focusing on transforming the spectral envelope of the source speaker to match that of the target speaker. This is usually achieved by estimating a transformation function from parallel training data from the two speakers. However, the current applications suffer from loss of spectral detail during synthesis of the morphed speech, often attributed to the low dimensional representations of the acoustic models used for extracting the acoustic features. We propose a new Multiresolution Voice Morphing Algorithm (MVMA) which uses the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) for modeling the shortterm and long-term acoustic properties of speech and estimates a transformation function at each sub-band by means of a Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network. The proposed system is evaluated objectively and subjectively using parallel and non-parallel training data. The tests show that the proposed approach effectively transforms speaker identity even though perceivable artifacts still exist in the transformed speech.
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SOUZA, GUSTAVO SANT ANNA DE. "VOICE INSURRECTION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30175@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar os elementos não-lexicais, todavia produtores de sentido, na performance vocal dentro do campo da canção. Tomam-se como norte epistemológico os estudos do suíço Paul Zumthor, que, ao falar sobre voz poética, afirma que ela transcende a linguagem simbólica e manifesta suas qualidades materiais no tom, timbre, intensidade e demais elementos não linguísticos, porém expressivos e instauradores de presença. A pesquisa se desenvolve em torno de alguns desses elementos, buscando entender melhor como atuam, de que maneira se organizam e por meio de que parâmetros produzem diferenças e semelhanças que afetam diretamente a produção de sentido no âmbito da língua em seu estado musical. Paralelamente, adotou-se como conceito teórico-empírico a proposição do compositor e linguista brasileiro Luiz Tatit, para quem, no universo da palavra cantada, a eficácia da linguagem poética provém das potências da entoação. Assim, buscamos na investigação de aspectos sonoros relacionados à fala e à oralidade os elementos materiais que dão subsídio a nossas elucubrações teóricas e proposições estéticas.<br>The purpose of this work is to identify and investigate non-lexical elements, however producers of meaning in vocal performance in the song field. We take as a starting point the studies of Paul Zumthor, a Swiss linguist, who, when speaking of poetic voice, states that it transcends the symbolic language and expresses its material qualities in tone, timbre, loudness and other sound elements that in spite of being called non-linguistics are significant and responsible for creating presence. We have developed our research around some of these elements, trying to comprehend how they act, organize and create similarities and differences that affect directly the creation of meaning in the language in its musical state. At the same time, we adopted as a theoretical and empirical concept the proposition of Luiz Tatit, a Brazilian songwriter and also a linguist, who advocates that the efficacy of the poetic language in the universe of song lyrics comes from the characters of the intonation. In this investigation of the sound elements, we intend to find sufficient material to subside our theoretical reflections and aesthetical propositions.
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Shillingburg, Lisa. "Voice Lessons." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/504.
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Osipova, M., Наталія Ігорівна Муліна, Наталия Игоревна Мулина, and Nataliia Ihorivna Mulina. "Voice assistant." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/77845.
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Everyday devices become smarter. Thanks to software agent which is called an intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) or intelligent personal assistant we can use our appliances in full. Nowadays there are more than 30 different IVA, but all of them have differences. Popular voice assistants currently include Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Google Now, Google Assistant and Microsoft's Cortana. Voice assistants are technology-based. Voice assistants are built on artificial intelligence, machine learning and voice recognition technology. These agents can interpret human speech and respond via synthesized voices. They are the point of communication between you and all your connected devices.
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Asikin-Garmager, Eli Scott. "Sasak voice." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5408.
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This dissertation provides a formal and functional analysis of grammatical voice in Sasak, an Austronesian language spoken in Eastern Indonesia. The research addresses two primary questions, which are (1) how does Sasak clause structure and morphosyntax vary across dialects? and (2) what shapes speakers’ syntactic production, namely grammatical voice choices? Answers to these questions are pursued via elicitation data, a corpus analysis, and results of two language production experiments.
The first part of the dissertation examines how Sasak dialects differ syntactically and morphosyntactically. Data from embedded clauses, clitics, and possessive pronominal clitics are used to argue that that Central Sasak maintains two distinct transitive clause types despite the lack of the overt morphological contrast found with transitive verbs in Eastern Sasak. These data also support prior arguments (Davies, 1993; Guilfoyle, Hung, & Travis, 1992; Shibatani, 2008) that Indonesian languages have either two grammatical subject positions, or both a subject and grammatical topic position in the case of Sasak.
Many Austronesian languages spoken on Indonesia’s Java Island and surrounding islands share a cognate nasal prefix that is generally found in the presence of preverbal actors (Arka, 2009; Davies, 2005; Sneddon, 1996). This dissertation presents data from three Sasak dialects that show how multiple, morphologically distinct nasal prefixes in Sasak dialects (also noted by Austin, 2012) correlate with two syntactic facts: first, what argument may be extracted out of vP; and secondly, whether or not the lexical verb projects an internal argument. These facts are accounted for in a Minimalist framework (Chomsky, 1993, 2001) by permitting variation to target single features on syntactic heads (as proposed by Aldridge, 2008).
The second half of the dissertation investigates what factors shape speakers’ grammatical voice choices. Speakers’ production patterns can clearly be understood as shaped by the structural properties of their specific language(s), and this is also true in Sasak. However, what about when multiple word orders and voice choices are possible? When languages allow for syntactic options, are there universal non-syntactic constraints that exert influence on the production and syntactic coding choices? This dissertation explores potential universal biases identified in literature that has grown out of Bock and Warren’s (1985:50) work on Conceptual Accessibility, or the “ease with which the mental representation of some potential referent can be activated in, or retrieved from, memory”.
The specific biases examined for Sasak in the current work are Discourse Topicality (Givón, 1983), animacy (Branigan, Pickering, & Tanaka, 2008), and noun phrase length (MacDonald, 2013; Tanaka, Branigan, McLean, & Pickering, 2011). Results of a corpus analysis are combined with data from two production experiments, and show that both animacy and topicality affect voice selection in Sasak. Specifically, [+animate] and [+topical] noun phrases are produced earlier in a sentence, thereby affecting the grammatical voice produced. Also, Sasak speakers exhibit a ‘long before short’ bias (i.e., placing longer noun phrases before relatively shorter ones in utterances), affecting voice selection as well. Contextualized in cross-linguistic data, this supports the argument made in this dissertation that the cognitive effect of the semantic richness and salience of longer nouns is relative to the speaker’s stage in planning and producing an utterance.
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Derfler, Brandon Joel. "Single-voice transformations : a model for parsimonious voice leading /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11418.
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Walton, Chloe. "Unilateral vocal fold paralysis : Voice therapy and voice outcomes." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2018. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/0232c3d9f0f647c7ef485011cb64a90856682aa7dcac1def5faeb4794abe62b6/7120437/Walton_2018_Unilateral_vocal_fold_paralysis_voice_therapy.pdf.
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Unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP) is a debilitating condition arising from a recurrent laryngeal nerve injury due to iatrogenic, idiopathic or other intrinsic or extrinsic causes. The loss of voluntary vocal fold movement can result in marked changes in voice quality and performance (dysphonia) and have a significant impact on quality of life. UVFP is estimated to affect approximately 0.5% of the population - with dysphonia reported in 86.6% of all cases. Treatment for UVFP aims to improve the voice quality and restore the glottal sufficiency either through voice therapy, surgical intervention or a combination of the two. Selection of treatment type for UVFP is based on the severity of the glottal insufficiency, the associated dysphonia and the vocal requirements of the individual. However, there is currently limited evidence available to support decision making around the management of dysphonia for people with UVFP. There are a number of potential reasons for the current limitation in evidence, including: (1) inadequate development and documentation of the voice therapy program characteristics and (2) variable and inadequate application of voice outcome measures to determine treatment effect.
The first aim of my PhD is therefore to investigate the content, timing and dosage characteristics of voice therapy provided (by speech pathologists) to patients with dysphonia due to UVFP. This has resulted in three studies in my thesis: (1) a systematic review of the current relevant literature; (2) a cross-section international survey of current practice and (3) an in-depth qualitative study of expert practice. The findings of the three studies highlighted the lack of consistency in the application of voice therapy in the literature (Study 1), and then provided key information that informed the development of a schema that outlined the key stages involved in voice therapy treatment for patients with UVFP (Study 2 and Study 3) Key elements of this schema described factors that influence decision making and goal setting for voice therapy, the timing and intensity of therapy, the measurement of therapy outcomes, and decision making for the cessation of therapy. The schema could inform both future research into the efficacy of voice therapy in UVFP and clinical practice Together these studies will provide a triangulation of evidence to formulate a clear and prescriptive direction for voice therapy treatment for future efficacy studies, as well as for clinical practice.
The second aim of my PhD is to critically evaluate voice outcome measures that are used with patients with UVFP to determine treatment effects. There are a large number of potential voice outcomes to choose from (more than 50), across multiple dimensions of voicing (e.g. acoustic, aerodynamic, auditory-perceptual and patient self-rated measures) and therefore there is a need for clarity on the most appropriate means of detecting voice change over time. A systematic review was conducted to address the second aim. The systematic review critically evaluated the voice outcome measures used in the existing literature with respect to reliability, validity and responsiveness to change, as well as multidimensionality and procedural/protocol accuracy. The systematic review identified set of voice outcome measures with good psychometric properties that demonstrated their responsiveness to the treatment effect. The set of outcome measures could therefore be used for future research in UVFP.
Together the findings of this thesis provide the best evidence for the voice therapy management of UVFP and have identified several multi-dimensional voice outcome measures which are responsive to the treatment effect.
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Chang, Wing-yin Maureen. "Perceptual and acoustic differences between aging voice and dysphonic voice." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36207810.
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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2001.<br>"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, May 4, 2001. Also available in print.
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Freeman, Stacey. "Canadian Aboriginal voice : retooling Hirschman’s concepts of voice and exit." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46376.
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The purpose of this study is to identify barriers faced by Aboriginals when employing voice channels for political and civic participation. This article begins with an overview of literature addressing participation paradigms. It critiques previous literature and offers a mathematical model to address the cost-benefit analysis Aboriginals face when employing various voice channels within Canada. This study is divided into two parts. Part I examines the costs to employing voice channels typically ascribed to Aboriginal participation. Part II, employs a case study of an Environmental Assessment currently underway between BC Hydro and the West Moberly First Nations. The case study applies ideas developed in Part I, highlighting barriers to Aboriginal participation. Throughout, this research examines the colonial relationship found within Canadian institutions and offers a new approach to restructure the relationship between the Crown and Aboriginal peoples.
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Kennelly, Ita B. "Voice matters : narratives and perspectives on voice in academic writing." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16766/.
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Huber, Stefan. "Voice Conversion by modelling and transformation of extended voice characteristics." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 6, 2015. https://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=https://theses-intra.sorbonne-universite.fr/2015PA066750.pdf.
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La Conversion de la Voix (VC) vise à transformer les caractéristiques de la voix d’un locuteur source de manière qu’il sera perçu comme étant prononcé par un locuteur cible. Le principe de la VC est de définir des fonctions du transposition pour la conversion de la voix de l’un locuteur source à la voix de l’un locuteur cible. Les fonctions de transformation de VC systèmes "State-Of-The-Art" (START) adapte instantanément aux caractéristiques de la voix source. Cependant, la qualité est pas encore suffisant. Des améliorations considérables sont nécessaires que les techniques VC peuvent être utilisés dans un environnement industriel professionnel. L’objectif de cette thèse est d’augmenter la qualité de la conversion de la voix pour faciliter son applicabilité industrielle dans une mesure raisonnable. Les propriétés de base de différentes START algorithmes de la conversion de la voix sont discutés sur leurs avantages intrinsèques et ses déficits. Basé sur des évaluations expérimentales avec un GMM VC système la conclusion est que la plupart des systèmes VC START qui reposent sur des modèles statistiques sont, en raison de l’effet en moyenne de la régression linéaire, moins appropriées pour atteindre un score du similitude assez élevé avec le haut-parleur cible requise pour l’utilisation industrielle. Les contributions établies pendant de ce travail de thèse se trouvent dans les moyens étendus à a) modéliser l’excitation du source glottique, b) modéliser des descripteurs de la voix en utilisant un nouveau système de parole basée sur un modèle élargie de source-filtre, et c) avancer une nouveau système VC de l’Ircam en le combinant avec les contributions de a) et b)<br>Voice Conversion (VC) aims at transforming the characteristics of a source speaker’s voice in such a way that it will be perceived as being uttered by a target speaker. The principle of VC is to define mapping functions for the conversion from one source speaker’s voice to one target speaker’s voice. The transformation functions of common State-Of-The-Art (START) VC system adapt instantaneously to the characteristics of the source voice. While recent VC systems have made considerable progress over the conversion quality of initial approaches, the quality is nevertheless not yet sufficient. Considerable improvements are required before VC techniques can be used in an professional industrial environment. The objective of this thesis is to augment the quality of Voice Conversion to facilitate its industrial applicability to a reasonable extent. The basic properties of different START algorithms for Voice Conversion are discussed on their intrinsic advantages and shortcomings. Based on experimental evaluations of one GMM-based State-Of-The-Art VC approach the conclusion is that most VC systems which rely on statistical models are, due to averaging effect of the linear regression, less appropriate to achieve a high enough similarity score to the target speaker required for industrial usage. The contributions established throughout this thesis work lie in the extended means to a) model the glottal excitation source, b) model a voice descriptor set using a novel speech system based on an extended source-filter model, and c) to further advance IRCAM’s novel VC system by combining it with the contributions of a) and b)
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Paya, Herrero Begona. "Voice and Identity." Diss., lmu, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-110288.
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Song, Qunying, and Hui Shen. "Intelligent Voice Assistant." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-9360.
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This project includes an implementation of an intelligent voice recognition assistant for Android where functionality on current existing applications on other platforms is compared. Until this day, there has not been any good alternative for Android, so this project aims to implement a voice assistant for the Android platform while describing the difficulties and challenges that lies in this task.
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Slusar, Donna Marie. "Graduate voice recital." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24447.
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Myers, Robert. "DIGITAL VOICE DECODER." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608828.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1993 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada<br>In the world of Real-Time Telemetry, a vital element is voice communications. Aircraft
"hotmike" provides a continuous one way link from the aircraft to the Data Center,
thereby allowing the flight test personnel to monitor all cockpit audio. Pulse Code
Modulation (PCM) containing digitized hotmike is one method used to transmit voice.
This paper details a device that extracts digitized voice words from a PCM stream and
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Preston, Jon. "Voice in radio." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2017. http://research.gold.ac.uk/20190/.
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“Voice in Radio” is a practice-based thesis. It reflects on a series of participatory media projects involving community groups and secondary school students working together to produce radio shows. The thesis offers an analysis of those projects through the academic prism of ‘voice’, a term defined in both the personal and socio-political senses. Further, it reflects on the possibilities for voice offered by Participatory Community Radio (PCR) practice. Having devised and led this practice, I occupy the position of a ‘reflexive practitioner’ in the study. The thesis is presented as a linear narrative: through PCR, a participant hears their own physical voice as others do, externally; they first become accustomed to and then comfortable with the sound of their own voice; they gain agency, becoming able to vocalise their stories through the radio project work; they gain further agency through socio-political Voice as their work is aired in a series of radio shows. The participant groups are from a selection of cohorts encompassing a ‘Senior Citizens West Indian Luncheon and Social club’, a boys’ secondary school, a hospice, an Arts school and a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU). The data presented were collected through a mixed methods strategy. Project work and participant reflections are offered, together with comments from associated professionals. This material features in both written and aural form. The ideas of authors including Berry, Chomsky, Couldry, Coyer, Dowmunt, Mayo and Rodenburg are drawn upon to establish the project work within a framework for discussion. Conclusions are offered on the possibilities of PCR in a neo-liberal economic and cultural climate specifically in relation to empowerment, voice and exchange. An hour-long audio CD accompanies the written thesis as an illustration of the PCR practice under review. Combined, these two elements offer an investigation into “Voice in Radio”.
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Ent, Petr. "Voice Activity Detection." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-235483.
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Práce pojednává o využití support vector machines v detekci řečové aktivity. V první části jsou zkoumány různé druhy příznaků, jejich extrakce a zpracování a je nalezena jejich optimální kombinace, která podává nejlepší výsledky. Druhá část představuje samotný systém pro detekci řečové aktivity a ladění jeho parametrů. Nakonec jsou výsledky porovnány s dvěma dalšími systémy, založenými na odlišných principech. Pro testování a ladění byla použita ERT broadcast news databáze. Porovnání mezi systémy bylo pak provedeno na databázi z NIST06 Rich Test Evaluations.
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Backman, Anton, and Eric Cioran. "Voice controlled home." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-226646.
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To aid the resident this project has made it possible to change the setting of home appliances using voice recognition. In the startup process of the voice recognition program, the user records a word that is associated to the home appliance, the word will be frequency analysed and stored. When the startup process is done, the user can say the word that is associated to the appliance which will then be frequency analysed and compared to the stored word. If the words match, the setting of the appliance will change. One of the setting is, automatic, where the appliance is controlled by sensors. The purpose of this project is to create a simple voice recognition program using Fast Fourier Transform, FFT. The user is able to control and change settings of different home appliances using their voice. The voice recognition should be able to recognise at least one user. The results shows that when the same user records a word and then repeats it, the application setting changes at least 78% of the times, however when another user that has not recorded any word repeats the word the application setting changes at least 65% of the times.<br>För att underlätta användaren i hemmet har detta projekt gjort det möjligt att ändra hemapplikationers tillstånd via röststyrning. Detta görs via att användaren vid startprocessen spelar in ett ord som associeras till hemapplikationen, ordet kommer frekvensanalyseras och sedan lagras. När startprocessen är klar kommer användaren närsomhelst kunna säga ordet som associerades till hemapplikationen, ordet kommer frekvensanalyseras och sedan jämföras med det lagrade ordet. Ifall orden stämmer överrens kommer applikationens tillstånd att ändras. Ett tillstånd är t.ex. automatiskt läge, där applikationen styrs med hjälp av sensorer. Målet med detta projekt är att skapa ett röstigenkänningsprogram, som använder Fast Fourier Transform, FFT. Användaren ska kunna kontroller och ändra olika hem applikationer tillstånd via röststyrning. Minst en användare ska kunna använda rösigenkkänningsprogrammet. Resultatet visar att när samma användare spelar in ett ord och sedan upprepar ordet ändras applikationens tillstånd vid minst 78% av tillfällena, däremot när en annan användare som inte har spelat in ett ord använder röststyrningen, ändras applikationens tillstånd vid minst 65% av tillfällena.
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Reed, Delanna. "New Voice Storyteller." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1271.
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Payá, Herrero Begoña. "Voice and identity : a contrastive study of identity perception in voice." kostenfrei, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1000286630/34.
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Wachs, Ashley Marie. "Voice interactive system a usability study of the voice survey creator /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Spring%20Theses/WACHS_ASHLEY_37.pdf.
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Payá, Herrero Begoña. "Voice and identity: a contrastive study of identity perception in voice." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de València, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/9802.
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En mi tesis doctoral he estudiado qué elementos suprasegmentales de la voz se combinan a nivel prosódico para transmitir información sobre nuestra identidad (origen, personalidad, emociones.). En la parte teórica se define el concepto de identidad, llegando a la conclusión de que identidad es un término relacional que construye un paralelismo entre dos campos, el de la individualidad y el de la colectividad. En el marco teórico se tratan distintas teorías como el constructivismo radical y el experiencialismo radical para comprender cómo la percepción, la estereotipación y la categorización de la voz son actores indispensables a la hora de utilizar la voz o escuchar otras voces. En la parte experimental se han utilizado herramientas de análisis fonético, de análisis de corpus, tests de personalidad y de percepción de la voz para llegar a las siguientes conclusiones: si bien no se encuentran diferencias a nivel de la intensidad media de las voces grabadas (todas femeninas, de tres nacionalidades diferentes), se observa cierta diferencia entre las nacionalidades a nivel de la frecuencia y a nivel de la velocidad. Se ha tratado de encontrar posibles diferencias fonéticas entre voces extrovertidas e introvertidas pero no hay resultados concluyentes. El análisis del corpus recogido en entrevistas acerca de la voz, permite concluir que en general se consideran desagradables las voces agudas y chillonas, mientras que las voces graves y roncas se consideran sexys. El test de percepción llevado a cabo después, utilizando tanto voces agudas como voces graves, permite confirmar esta clasificación estereotipada de las voces. Este test demuestra que, independientemente de la comprensión o no del contenido lingüístico, todos somos capaces de percibir qué emociones básicas y actitudes transmite la voz. También se observan esquemas de verticalidad en las correlaciones entre algunos elementos vocales y algunos elementos de la identidad. Así pues, uniendo teoría con práctica se concluye que nuestra voz codifica ambos aspectos de nuestra identidad (como individuos y como seres sociales) y que la producción de la voz no se puede entender sin la percepción y vice-versa. Ambos fenómenos están unidos a las características de nuestro cuerpo y de nuestra cognición.<br>In my doctoral thesis I have focused on the suprasegmental level of language in order to find out which combinations of prosodic features convey not only content information but also information about our personality, our attitudes and our emotions, that is, information about our identity.After considering different definitions of the term "identity", I come to the conclusion that "identity" is a relational term that establishes a parallelism between two domains: the domain of individuality and the domain of collectiveness. In this regard, theories from cognitive linguistics, radical constructivism and radical experientialism are studied and applied to show how our identity is a necessary construction expressed through different means. Moreover, the theoretical part of the dissertation bases itself on the notion of embodiment from the cognitive field and gives great importance to the role played by perception in the use of our voice.The theoretical implications are then verified in an empirical part: 60 female voices (20 German, 20 American, 20 Spanish) are recorded in interviews and analysed phonetically with Praat. After classifying the voices in terms of nationality and in terms of personality groups (introversion/extroversion) vocal aspects such as length, average pitch, intensity and speech rate are measured. Although the results show nationality differences in pitch and speech rate there are no concrete tendencies observed for the personality parameters of introversion/extroversion, even though we do have common expectations about how an introvert or an extrovert speaks. These results are also checked statistically.In a second step, all the voice labels used by the candidates interviewed are collected, classified according to their frequency and compared with results given by certain corpora tools. This shows clear vocal stereotypes: for the three nationalities studied, deep and raspy voices are judged to be sexy and high and squeaky voices are considered unpleasant. Phonetic voice labels are preferred to impressionistic voice labels. Certain voice labels such as sweet or soft seem more language dependant.A comparison between judgements made on the own voice (in terms of frequency, intensity and speech rate) and the results from the phonetic analysis proves that non-experts have an accurate self perception of voice, which is then confirmed in a perception test by using high and deep voices as stimuli. This test proves that independently of whether we understand the language heard or not, we are capable of guessing correctly basic emotions and attitudes by interpreting the prosodic cues available. For certain voice correlations between vocal cues and identity cues a verticality schema has been found.As a conclusion, by contrasting theory and practice it can be stated that our voice encodes the dichotomy of our identity very well (as unique beings and as members of a collectivity) and that voice production cannot be understood without voice perception and vice-versa. Both phenomena are linked to our embodied condition and our cognition.
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FURTADO, ALBERTO ANTONIO BITTENCOURT. "VOICE FILE SERVER: A PRELIMINAR STUDY ON REAL TIME VOICE HANDLER." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 1991. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=14035@1.
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O trabalho visa a especificação e implementação de um servidor de arquivos de voz em tempo real, compatível com arquiteturas de rede local. Visou-se também desenvolver um protótipo, em C, para ambiente OS/ 2 combinado com LAN MANAGER, sobre uma plataforma constituída de microcomputadores tipo PC, baseados em processadores INTEL 286 e 386. O servidor permite a centralização de arquivos de voz, tornando possível que vários programas em execução na rede local compartilhem desses arquivos. O trabalho faz parte do projeto LANBRETAS.<br>This work aims at the specification and implementation of a real-time voice file server, compartible with local area network architectures. A complementary objective was to develop a prototype, in C, for OS/ 2 – LAN MANAGER, running on a platform consisting of PC-type microcomputers, based on INTEL 286 and 386 processors. The server permits the centralization of voice files, allowing several programs executing on a local area network to share these files. The work is part of the LANBRETAS project.
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Hagirahim, Hassan. "Packet-switched voice and its application to integrated voice/data networks." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/38026.
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Del, Pozo Arantza. "Voice source and duration modelling for voice conversion and speech repair." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611093.
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Sousa, Simone Santos. "Body-voice in collective context: voice actions formative in choral singing." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2011. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7262.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior<br>Body and voice are together as an integral tool in the activity of singing. The goal of this work is to understand how this unique body is experienced in the teaching-learning singing. To this end, investigated the build process of the scenic-musical performances developed by Coral da Universidade Federal do CearÃ. I used the ideas of Dalcroze and Orff concerning the inclusion of the body in the process of musical education, the experiences with the choir of Villa-Lobos and Marcos Leite, the ideas of the body to the actor proposed by Appia, Artaud and Grotowski, beyond the metaphors body suggested by Patricia Pederiva. I opted for the qualitative approach of ethnographic and descriptive, seeking to elucidate the meanings related to body-question voice in the choir of the UFC, hoping to get greater depth through qualitative methodology. To know the reality of the involved was used as an instrument of data collection interview, conducted with conductors, singers and group physical trainers, in addition to daily rehearsals and performances observed. Subsequently we analyzed the contents of the data collected. In analyzing the data collected, I came to a set of categories that can be summarized as follows: a) meanings of body, b) Difficulties found c) procedures and experiences. The analysis showed the importance of the work of preparing the body integrated vocal technique in the search for a unique body, integral and organic, in which body, voice and movement to integrate more freely.<br>Corpo e voz estÃo juntos como um instrumento integral na atividade de cantar. O objetivo deste trabalho à entender como se vivencia esse corpo Ãnico no processo ensino-aprendizagem do canto. Para tal, investiguei o processo de montagem de espetÃculos cÃnico-musicais desenvolvido pelo Coral da Universidade Federal do CearÃ. Utilizei as ideias de Dalcroze e Orff que dizem respeito à inclusÃo do corpo no processo de educaÃÃo musical; as experiÃncias com coro de Villa-Lobos e Marcos Leite; as ideias de corpo para o ator propostas por Appia, Artaud e Grotowski; alÃm das metÃforas de corpo sugeridas por PatrÃcia Pederiva. Optei pela abordagem qualitativa de carÃter etnogrÃfico e descritivo, buscando investigar as significaÃÃes relacionadas à questÃo corpo-voz ao acompanhar os ensaios do coral da UFC, esperando conseguir maior grau de profundidade por meio da metodologia qualitativa. Para conhecer a realidade dos envolvidos, foi utilizada como instrumento de coleta de dados a entrevista individual, realizada com regentes, coralistas e preparadores corporais do grupo, alÃm de diÃrios de ensaios e apresentaÃÃes observadas. Posteriormente foi realizada a anÃlise do conteÃdo dos dados coletados. Ao analisar os dados coletados, cheguei a um conjunto de categorias que podem ser resumidas em: a) Significados de corpo; b) Dificuldades encontradas; c) Procedimentos e experiÃncias. A anÃlise mostrou a importÃncia do trabalho de preparaÃÃo corporal integrado à tÃcnica vocal na busca de um corpo Ãnico, integral e orgÃnico, no qual corpo, voz e movimento se integrem de forma mais livre.
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Mann, Lyndsay. "Voice and uncertainty : processes of voice in artists' nonfiction moving image." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25829.
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Voice is an inconstant yet constantly performative material; it is our internally-housed, liminal technology. ‘Processes of voice’ is the term I develop throughout the text of this thesis to articulate materialities of voice and methods of address within processes of practice in artists’ moving image that ‘give voice’ to material and non-material forms. I interrogate this in relation to key concepts in Philosophy of Mind to address the complex ways in which bodily skills and action inform perception and thought to explore an account of perception and process in relation to voice. I examine the liminal, inconstant, and uncertain in subjective experience, and the ways in which this is extended into the social through a politics of embodied practice harnessed in moving images. I make a case for the uncertain I-voice, which engages the fully embodied and openly subjective, to challenge established narratives and conventions of address, and the power and knowledge dynamics that structure them. I come to focus on the uncertain acousmatic I-voice in moving image, which through its presentness, intimacy and acknowledgement of uncertainty relinquishes the acousmêtre’s threat of control to share a liminal territory of destabilized authority with the viewer. This is also explored in and through my own moving image work, A Desire For Organic Order (2015), a single screen video, which contributes to the overall thesis.
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Weisner, Jill. "When someone in us awakens : emerging teacher voice and student voice /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946310.
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Tasyumruk, Lutfullah. "Analysis of voice quality problems of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03sep%5FTasyumruk.pdf.
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Arnold, Amanda, Lisa Phillips, Lindsay Pickler, Whitney White, Amanda McCamey, and Christopher McCrea. "Voice Onset Time as a Clinical Indicator of Hypofunctional Voice Disorders." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1960.
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The purpose of this study was to measure and compare the voice onset times (VOTs) of healthy individuals using a normal and breathy voice in an effort to determine if VOT can be used as a noninvasive clinical indicator of laryngeal function. Recordings were made of 20 adults between the ages of 20-48 with normal laryngeal function, each using a normal (Group 1) and breathy voice (Group 2). The participants’ productions were designed and collected in such a manner to control for speaking rate, vowel context, pitch, and loudness; all of which have been shown to influence VOT. A mixed analyses of variance showed that hypofunctional productions demonstrated longer VOTs across all stop consonants when compared to normal productions. Within the stops, a significant difference between the voiced and voiceless stops was noted, although no gender differences were found. It was concluded that VOT can be used as an indirect clinical indicator of laryngeal function.
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Chaffey, Sarah. "Voice in Motion: Connecting voice, acting and movement in contemporary dance." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2399.
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This Masters by Research (Performing Arts) explores the integration of voice and acting fundamentals into contemporary dance practice to prepare the dancer to deliver spoken text and convey character in performance. The inquiry was motivated by the increasing demand of the interdisciplinary dance practitioner, or more specifically, the contemporary dancer-actor. The research has involved engaging with industry, performance, ongoing studio practice and experimental workshops. The research asked how might voice and acting fundamentals be integrated into contemporary dance practice and how will this influence the dance artist in creative process and performance? The practice as research methodology involved an immersive and responsive research design. I participated in Australian dance theatre company Force Majeure’s annual dance theatre intensive, INCITE, with interest into the training tools developed by Danielle Micich which then led to taking on the lead role in the premiere of Rubber Girl on the Loose by CAKE, Singapore. Critical reflection highlighted the necessary considerations to be made by directors to address the needs for contemporary dancers when undertaking movement and text-based performance. Studio practice and experimental workshops took place after this performance season with the aim to explore various approaches to developing vocal and breath support and acting fundamentals. Addressing vocal needs has resulted in a series of recommended training exercises to develop awareness of breath and flexibility in the tension and release of crucial muscles used in respiration and spinal support. The exercises are designed to develop coordination in the activation and release of the abdominal muscles to assist dancers with speaking text atop rigorous dance movement and speaking while involved in more pedestrian actions. Video documentation and written analysis reflect the various challenges and the insight gained in the process of developing an integrated training practice.
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Smith, Belinda Andrews. "Voice disorders : a handbook for the voice teacher examining the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of the damaged singing voice." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1241190387.
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Ma, Pui-man Estella. "Assessing voice activity and participation implication of clinical management in voice disorders /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36210031.
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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 1999.<br>"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, April 30, 1999." Also available in print.
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Knight, Juanita M. "Effects of Bulimia Nervosa on the Voice: A Guide for Voice Teachers." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/537.
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The purpose of this essay is to compile a list of symptoms to aid voice teachers in the early detection of vocal problems resulting from bulimic behavior. Bulimia nervosa (BN) is an eating disorder characterized by bingeing and purging and has a high rate of occurrence among the college population. Entertainers form a high risk group for development of BN yet the effects of BN on the voice are largely ignored in vocal literature. The study begins with a literature review which links several factors that can influence the development of BN with "the singer’s personality." The two main character traits that appear most frequently are perfectionism and anxiety. The study continues with a narrative presentation of interviews by the author with three voice specialists in different fields of voice research and treatment. The research questions on which the interview portion of the study were based are: 1) Are otolaryngologists seeing an increase in vocal problems associated with eating disorders?; 2) Is there a belief among voice specialists that singer-actors are a high risk group for the development of eating disorders?; 3) What vocal symptoms should voice teachers watch and listen for if they suspect a student is bulimic?; 4) How should the voice teacher approach the recommendation of treatment, care, and use of the bulimic voice? This portion of the paper includes a clear and concise list of symptoms associated with BN that are easily identifiable by sight or sound. The paper concludes with a summary of the study results, suggestions for voice teachers training singers with the disorder, and ideas for further research.
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Chan, Shuk-kwan May, and 陳淑君. "Effectiveness of a multimedia-based voice therapy program for teacherswith voice disorders." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40987590.
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OLIVEIRA, CATARINA LINS ANTUNES DE. "VOICE COMES FROM INSIDE A BODY: ON VOICE-RECORDS MADE BY POETS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34840@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTITUIÇÕES COMUNITÁRIAS DE ENSINO PARTICULARES<br>Esta pesquisa propõe uma reflexão sobre as gravações de voz realizadas por poetas e o desenvolvimento do verso livre novo. Partindo da hipótese de que este tipo de gravação teria se tornado, para poetas que trabalham com o verso livre, um efetivo modo de escrita e entendendo as gravações como possível prática artística mais do que mero registro ou arquivo, os poemas, escritos e gravados, são analisados aqui principalmente a partir da relação entre sua dimensão gráfica e sonora. O trabalho do poeta estadunidense Frank O Hara é o principal objeto da análise.<br>This research analyzes the act of recording the voice when made by poets. Looking at this type of recording as a possible way of writing, and understanding it also as an artistic practice more than merely a kind of archive, the poems, written and recorded, are analyzed here mainly as regards their relationship between their graphic and sound dimension. The American poet Frank O Hara is taken and analyzed as the main example of this practice.
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Jones, Elizabeth J. "Rebel without a voice : developing student voice in a pupil referral unit." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020760/.
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This study explores the development of student voice in a Pupil Referral Unit. The research offers a unique perspective since it is situated outside mainstream school settings and reflects strategies which are beyond the conventional participative models of student voice. Previous research within the organisation indicates that excluded students in urban settings lack the skills to communicate effectively, particularly with those in authority. This limits their ability to articulate their opinions and ideas both inside the organisation and in the wider community. The thesis aims to develop strategies that will support excluded students in establishing their voice by exploring the idea of a specialised curriculum which develops the skills of empowerment and self advocacy so that students become more articulate, confident and able to communicate successfully. The methodology is practitioner research within the wider context of an on-going action research project in the organisation. A series of focus groups involved staff and students in a critical analysis of current practice and identifying the key elements of a specialised curriculum. Three strands of theoretical analysis are used: (1) Theories that place excluded students in the wider social and political context, which provide an insight into the consequences of exclusion and the discourses of difference that emerge. (2) Models of education based on social justice and empowerment, linked to a critical pedagogy. (3) Work on student voice and how this can inform the development of strategies that support excluded young people in establishing a coherent and articulate voice. Research outcomes indicate the need for a specialist curriculum including key elements that would support excluded students in developing their voice. Essential to this is a critical pedagogy and a range of teaching and learning strategies that are integrated throughout the whole college curriculum.
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Ram, Abhishek. "Assessment of Voice Over IP as a solution for Voice over ADSL." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33135.
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Voice over DSL (VoDSL) is a technology that enables the transport of data and multiple voice calls over a single copper-pair. VoDSL employs packet voice technology instead of the traditional circuit switched voice. Voice over ATM (VoATM) and Voice over IP (VoIP) are the two main alternatives for carrying voice packets over DSL. ATM is currently the preferred technology, since it offers the advantage of ATMâ s built-in Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms. IP, on the other hand, cannot provide QoS guarantees in its traditional form. IP QoS mechanisms have been evolved only in the recent years. VoIP has gained popularity in the core networks. If it could replace VoATM in the access networks, it would open the door for end-to-end IP telephony that would result in major cost savings. In this thesis, we propose a VoIP-based VoDSL architecture that provides QoS guarantees comparable to those offered by ATM in the DSL access network.
Our QoS architecture supports Premium and Regular service categories for voice traffic and the Best-Effort service category for data traffic. Voice and data packets are placed in separate output queues at the bottleneck link. The Weighted Fair Queuing algorithm in used to schedule voice and data packets for transmission over the bottleneck link. Fragmentation of large data packets reduces the waiting time for voice packets in the link. We also propose a new admission control mechanism called Admission Control by Implicit Signaling. This mechanism takes advantage of application layer signaling by mapping it to the IP header. The router can infer the resource requirements for the connection by looking at certain field in the IP header of the application layer signaling packets. This eliminates the need for an explicit signaling protocol.
We evaluate the performance of our QoS architecture by means of a simulation study. Our primary metrics are the end-to-end delay of voice packets across the access network and the bandwidth consumed by a voice call. Our results show that the end-to-end delays of voice packets in our VoIP architecture are comparable to that in the VoATM architecture. ACIS limits the number of voice calls admitted into the premium service class and provides guaranteed service to those calls under all loads. It also provides acceptable service to regular calls under light loads. We also show that PPP is a better choice than ATM as a Layer 2 protocol for our VoIP architecture. PPP offers the advantages of low bandwidth requirement and interleaving of voice packets in between fragments of large data packets during transmission over the bottleneck link. We conclude that our VoIP architecture would be suitable for future VoDSL deployments.<br>Master of Science
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Wheeler, Karen Michelle. "Predicability of the Voice Handicap Index relative to acoustic measures of voice." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000823.
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Bommersbach, Marjorie Lynn. "Voice and self in adolescence: Exploring relationships among voice, self and friendship." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1830.
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