05 Apr 2005

Tim Mills

In normal speech, the vocal folds are abducted (drawn apart) from their voiced position for voiceless sounds. In my current study, I ask whether there are glottal "devoicing" (abduction) gestures in whispered speech. To answer this question, I have recorded minimal pairs (such as peer/beer, fear/veer) using a nasal endoscope. This talk reviews the methodology of acquiring such data and presents a scheme for measurement and analysis of the audiovisual data acquired.

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