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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
Experiments to study voice quality have typically used rating scales or direct magnitude estimation to obtain listener judgments. Unfortunately, the data obtained using these tasks are context dependent, which makes it difficult to compare perceptual judgments of voice quality across experiments. The present experiment describes a simple matching task to quantify voice quality. The data obtained through this task were compared to perceptual judgments obtained using rating scale and direct magnitude estimation tasks to determine whether the three tasks provide equivalent perceptual distances across stimuli. Ten synthetic vowel continua that varied in terms of their aspiration noise were evaluated for breathiness using each of the three tasks. Linear and nonlinear regressions were used to compare the perceptual distances between stimuli obtained through each technique. Results show that the perceptual distances estimated from matching and direct magnitude estimation task are similar, but both differ from the rating scale task, suggesting that the matching task provides perceptual distances with ratio-level measurement properties. The matching task is advantageous for measurement of vocal quality because it provides reliable measurement with ratio-level scale properties. It allows the use of a fixed reference signal for all comparisons, thus allowing researchers to directly compare findings across different experiments.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1557-8658
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright (c) 2010 The Voice Foundation. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
168-77
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-7-25
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Auditory Perception, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Judgment, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Linear Models, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Nonlinear Dynamics, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Observer Variation, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Phonation, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Phonetics, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Psychoacoustics, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Regression Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Reproducibility of Results, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Sex Characteristics, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Task Performance and Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Voice Quality, pubmed-meshheading:19185451-Young Adult
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Perceptual distances of breathy voice quality: a comparison of psychophysical methods.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural