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. 2016 Aug;25(3):335–354. doi: 10.1044/2015_AJSLP-15-0020

Table A6.

The mean fundamental frequency (F0) in Hz and standard deviation pooled across vowels for a given speaker group are presented for both the manual F0 measurements and the Speech Acoustic Analysis Software Package default-generated F0 measurements. CSL = Computerized Speech Laboratory.

Speaker group Manual measurements
CSL
Praat
TF32
WaveSurfer
M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
Typically developing










 Male adults 116.88 26.18 114.81 23.73 125.43 39.93 116.17 24.44 111.86 23.89
 Female adults 218.20 33.31 213.24 31.25 215.39 34.53 218.72 32.37 214.28 31.33
 Male children 239.49 33.61 234.07 33.70 233.46 47.58 240.69 35.54 234.58 46.04
 Female children 238.04 18.29 240.58 21.42 237.45 12.02 238.65 17.89 238.47 17.60
Down syndrome
 Male adults 146.42 17.78 141.63 23.89 142.16 16.42 144.80 17.68 144.57 17.47
 Female adults 205.25 35.50 207.73 31.79 193.21 49.44 208.65 34.77 202.65 43.02
 Male children 248.72 40.79 228.38 49.31 235.86 39.20 245.07 42.38 241.98 51.38
 Female children 273.32 45.95 239.37 33.78 262.39 33.36 273.66 46.15 239.65 45.08