IAFPA
2016









Vowel sounds produced with varying production parameters:
Conceptualisation and realisation of a database

Dieter Maurer (1), Thayabaran Kathiresan (2), Volker Dellwo (2)

(1) Institute for the Performing Arts and Film
Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
(2) Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Comparative Linguistics,
University of Zurich, Switzerland






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Figure 6-3: Two extracts of speech of French women; recordings are taken from the newscast of the French channel France 2.

The first extract relates to a female French doctor talking on television. Range of F0 = c. 250–520 Hz.

The second relates to a female French journalist questioning a French woman on the street, and the answer of the latter (second part). Overall range of F0 for the utterances of both women = c. 230–600 Hz.