Quote from: Joanna Dark on June 26, 2013, 12:55:04 PM
What program do you use to figure out average range? I can never see it but mine looks somewhere around 165 or so. But I would really like to get an average for my relaxed voice. I don't have to really try to sound female I just have to ever so slightly alter my voice. I know I pass as female voice wise as I have been on the phone with a bank for my mom as she couldn't talk and she asked me to do it and it worked. And if they had any doubt about how I sounded they woulda said something. It's a bank after all. Plus every person I meet thinks I'm FAAB and when I open my mouth I don't get any weird reaction nor do I stop passing.
I am using Praat analyzer
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/And my fundamental frequency was varying between 191-212 Hz depending on if I try to speak higher pitch or just normal voice.
This is the test text
http://www.rit.edu/ntid/speechlang/slpros/media/rainbow But I guess you can say whatever you want because mean of the fundamental shouldn't depend on what you say.
Tutorial how to view fundamental frequency in Praat
First step is to open the recorded sound file menu Open->Read from file.
Go to 'Analyse Periodicity-' in the main menu
• Choose 'To Pitch (cc)' from the menu and stick to defaults (unless you have good reasons to change it)
• If you like you can select the 'Pitch_{name}' object and choose 'Edit' to view the signal and to select a suitable interval for analysis
• Select Pitch object and choose 'Query-' from menu
• Choose 'Get mean..' from menu and the mean fundamental frequency for the specified interval will be displayed in the 'Info window'. Do the same for 'Get standard deviation..'. A description of the difference between phonation (as in single vowel phonations) and speaking (as in normal speech or in reading aloud fragments of e.g., the Rainbow passage) fundamental frequency can be found in Baken & Orlikoff (2000), including some reference data. Normally, a more robust indicator would be the median using 'Get quantile' in the 'Query' menu, selecting the 0.5 ( = median) quantile setting (try it now).
You can also analyse formants (harmonic frequencys) F1,F2... Intead of using Analyse periodicity menu, u have to go to the Analyse Spectrum -> To Formant. Then new object called Formant will appear in the list and after choosing this formant record object you can use Query menu to obtain mean for each harmonics(1,2...). However when analysing harmonics you must say just single wovel a,e,i etc, because formants are defined for single vowels and you can't get any meaningfull value from mixed text speech.
