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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 12.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Audio Speech Lang Process. 2013 Sep;21(9):1929–1939. doi: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2263138

TABLE I.

Measures of glottal behavior extracted from GVV estimates obtained from OVV and ACC signals. SID indicates the subject ID number and CAL is a flag that indicates if calibration of skin parameters was performed. Source-related measures are the difference between the first two harmonics (H1–H2), harmonic richness factor (HRF), maximum flow declination rate (MFDR), and peak-to-peak amplitude of the unsteady glottal airflow (AC flow). The fundamental frequency (F0) was observed to be the same for the OVV and ACC signals, so only the latter is presented.

SID CAL Voice Quality Vowel F0 H1–H2 HRF MFDR AC Flow
ACC OVV ACC OVV ACC OVV ACC OVV ACC
(Hz) (dB) (dB) (L/s2) (mL/s)
M1 Y Modal /a/ 114.7 12.3 11.6 −11.6 −9.8 102.0 129.0 147.2 150.4
N Modal /i/ 117.2 9.9 8.1 −9.3 −6.9 213.6 192.1 229.7 185.5
N Breathy /a/ 119.6 22.5 21.2 −20.6 −20.3 85.4 72.5 150.3 132.8
N Breathy* /i/ 117.2 17.2 21.7 −16.1 −20.9 79.7 75.5 127.8 135.9
N Modal-loud /a/ 102.5 8.9 12.1 −8.2 −10.6 351.2 336.2 312.3 343.8
N Modal-loud /i/ 107.4 11.7 12.8 −10.9 −11.1 174.5 195.8 269.1 263.5
Y Falsetto /a/ 227.1 15.9 17.7 −14.5 −17.1 379.8 327.9 270.4 282.0
N Falsetto /i/ 224.6 20.5 12.0 −18.3 −11.4 339.8 336.8 302.5 246.0
M2 Y Modal* /a/ 148.4 8.0 9.1 −7.5 −8.4 210.1 191.5 173.4 180.3
N Modal /i/ 149.4 8.2 6.5 −6.5 −6.0 130.9 128.4 123.1 119.9
N Modal-loud /a/ 181.6 5.6 4.1 −4.5 −3.5 720.5 670.9 349.2 382.2
N Modal-loud /i/ 182.6 11.1 5.3 −7.6 −4.8 551.5 501.5 272.7 298.3
M3 Y Modal /a/ 98.9 7.3 5.3 −7.0 −4.9 402.2 381.0 452.0 462.5
N Modal /i/ 98.7 7.4 6.3 −7.0 −5.9 339.2 317.2 451.0 463.6
N Modal-loud /i/ 100.9 7.5 2.3 −6.9 −2.0 611.9 557.7 663.8 679.5
N Breathy /a/ 85.3 29.3 32.8 −20.0 −19.0 218.6 209.7 454.5 457.5
N Breathy /i/ 85.0 16.8 22.2 −14.9 −16.7 217.4 210.5 390.8 387.1
M4 Y Modal-loud /a/ 122.1 10.0 8.3 −8.8 −7.2 703.0 665.0 502.8 522.9
N Modal-loud* /i/ 120.8 8.4 6.1 −7.7 −5.4 475.9 425.8 371.4 399.7
N Breathy /a/ 124.5 23.2 18.9 −17.6 −16.9 150.6 128.4 166.8 183.5
N Breathy /i/ 122.1 18.7 13.0 −7.0 −7.0 225.3 196.2 185.6 197.1
F1 Y Modal-loud /a/ 224.6 14.7 14.7 −12.8 −12.9 467.3 428.0 285.7 296.6
N Modal-loud /i/ 229.5 8.5 11.2 −7.8 −9.4 558.0 617.1 319.6 371.2
N Breathy /a/ 229.5 25.6 21.5 −24.1 −20.8 177.4 183.9 202.1 203.9
N Breathy /i/ 236.8 9.8 15.1 −9.7 −14.7 142.3 139.9 121.9 119.2
Y Falsetto /a/ 488.3 9.2 3.9 −9.0 −3.7 303.8 342.4 122.9 126.9
N Falsetto /i/ 481.0 5.4 0.0 −4.6 0.3 406.1 438.6 140.1 144.4
F2 Y Modal-loud /a/ 224.6 9.3 8.3 −7.5 −6.2 339.7 313.1 171.2 171.4
N Modal-loud /i/ 207.5 8.5 8.0 −6.7 −5.9 313.4 311.2 182.0 170.8
N Breathy /a/ 201.4 13.4 9.6 −7.6 −9.3 179.2 155.8 108.2 116.3
F3 Y Modal-loud /a/ 188.0 8.6 0.0 −7.7 0.6 200.1 188.3 134.0 109.8
Y Breathy /a/ 195.3 11.9 12.7 −11.3 −12.2 215.4 196.6 160.1 169.2
N Breathy /i/ 201.4 3.3 6.5 −2.9 −5.6 230.9 139.1 118.0 94.6