This page has a persistent identifier: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2023081621

Mietta Lennes & Minnaleena Toivola:

Pitch distributions in a very large corpus of spontaneous Finnish speech

Poster and supplementary materials presented at Interspeech 2023, 20.-24.8.2023, Dublin, Ireland.

Last updated: 2023-08-25

This page contains a picture of the poster presented at the conference and some additional figures and details about the piece of research in question. For further information, please contact Mietta Lennes.

• The poster
• The original article
• Additional figures
• The Donate Speech Corpus (and the Donate Speech campaign)
• The pitch data used for this study (forthcoming)
• References
• How to cite this page or the original article

Poster

(Click to download the image as a pdf document)

Additional figures

The pitch data used for this study

The pitch data calculated for this paper will be published as an online dataset. The link to the data will be added on this page.

References

• D. R. Ladd, Intonational phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• J. Leather,“Speaker normalization in perception of lexical tone,” Journal of Phonetics, vol. 11, pp. 373–382, 1983.
• C. B. Moore and A. Jongman, “Speaker normalization in the perception of Mandarin Chinese tones,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 102, pp. 1864–1877, 1997.
• E. Couper-Kuhlen, “The prosody of repetition. on quoting and mimicry,” in Prosody in Conversation, E. Couper-Kuhlen and M. Selting, Eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• I. Mennen, “Second language acquisition of pitch range in German learners of English,” Studies in Second Language Acquisition, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 303–329, 2014. Available: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26328942
• M. Lennes, M. Stevanovic, D. Aalto, and P. Palo, “Comparing pitch distributions using Praat and R,” Phonetician, no. 111-112, pp. 35–53, 2015. Available at: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/files/237386876/LennesStevanovicAaltoPalo_Phonetician2015.pdf
• M. Lennes, D. Aalto, and P. Palo,“Puheen perustaajuusjakaumat: Alustavia tuloksia,” in Fonetiikan päivät 2008. XXV Fonetiikan päivillä Tampereen yliopistossa 11.-12.1.2008 pidetyt esitelmät. Tampere Studies in Language, Translation and Culture, Series B 3, M. O’Dell and T. Nieminen, Eds. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 2009, pp. 147–155. Available: https://urn.fi/urn:isbn:978-951-44-7580-1
• R.S.Moore,“Comparison of children’s and adults’ vocalranges and preferred tessituras in singing familiar songs,” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, vol. 107, pp. 13–22, 1991. Available: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40318417
• J. T. Eichhorn, R. D. Kent, D. Austin, and H. K. Vorperian, “Effects of aging on vocal fundamental frequency and vowel formants in men and women,” Journal of Voice, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 644.e1–644.e9, 2018.
• G. Saggio and G. Costantini, “Worldwide healthy adult voice baseline parameters: a comprehensive review,” Journal of Voice, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 637–649, 2022.
• M. Nishio and S. Niimi, “Changes in speaking fundamental frequency characteristics with aging,” Folia Phoniatr Logop, vol. 60, pp. 120–127, 2008.
• L. Albuquerque, C. Oliveira, A. Teixeira, P. Sa-Couto, and D. Figueiredo, “A comprehensive analysis of age and gender effects in European Portuguese oral vowels,” Journal of Voice, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 143.e13–143.e29, 2023.
• E. T. Stathopoulos, J. E. Huber, and J. E. Sussman, “Changes in acoustic characteristics of the voice across the life span: Measures from individuals 4–93 years of age,” Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1011–1021, 2011.
• S.Deliyski and D.A. Xue, “Effects of aging on selected acoustic voice parameters: Preliminary normative data and educational implications,” Educational gerontology, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 159–168, 2001.
• University of Helsinki, “Donate Speech Corpus, version 1.0,” 2022. [Dataset]. Kielipankki – The Language Bank of Finland. Available: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2020090321
• S. Amiriparian, J. Han, M. Schmitt, A. Baird, A. Mallol-Ragolta, M. Milling, M. Gerczuk, and B. Schuller, “Synchronization in interpersonal speech,” Front Robot AI, vol. 6, no. 116, 2019.
• K. Lindén, T. Jauhiainen, M. Lennes, M. Kurimo, A. Rossi, T. Kurki, and O. Pitkänen, “Donate Speech: Collecting and sharing a large-scale speech database for social sciences, humanities and artificial intelligence research and innovation,” in CLARIN: The Infrastructure for Language Resources, A. W. Darja Fišer, Ed. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022, pp. 481–510.
• P. Boersma and D. Weenink. (2022) Praat: doing phonetics by computer (Version 6.3.02). [Computer program]. Available: https: //www.praat.org/. Retrieved on 29.11.2022.
• P. Boersma, “Accurate short-term analysis of the fundamental frequency and the harmonics-to-noise ratio of a sampled sound,” Proceedings of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 17, pp. 97–110, 1993.
• Posit Software, PBC, “RStudio 2022.12.0 build 353,” [Computer program], 2022. Available: https://posit.co/downloads/.

How to cite this poster presentation page

Mietta Lennes & Minnaleena Toivola (2023). Pitch distributions in a very large corpus of spontaneous Finnish speech. Poster and supplementary materials. Interspeech 2023, 20.-24.8.2023, Dublin, Ireland. Available: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2023081621.

Cite the original conference article:

Lennes, M., Toivola, M. (2023). Pitch distributions in a very large corpus of spontaneous Finnish speech. Proc. INTERSPEECH 2023, 4778-4782, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1822