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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Sing. 2005 Apr;61(4):387–392.

Table I.

Percentages of spectral level profile (SLP) overlap of the hearing range given for three vowels, as well as the overall maximum SLP across all vowels (as shown in Figure 3).

Untrained Trained
/i/ /a/ /u/ overall /i/ /a/ /u/ overall
Soprano 36.9 35.3 31.4 37.8 36.8 43.5 40.1 44.0
Mezzo-Soprano 36.9 32.8 34.9 38.1 41.6 45.6 37.3 46.2
Tenor 35.2 29.9 23.2 35.8 45.4 43.0 42.9 46.4
Bass-Baritone 36.5 42.9 34.9 43.1 41.1 39.7 34.2 42.4

Average 36.4 35.2 31.1 38.7 41.2 42.9 38.6 44.8