Whispered Speech A Presentation by Susanne Filges, Agata Mroczkowska and Annette Radon
Dec 19, 2015
What does whispering mean in general?
• sounds "soft" • less amplitude• no difference in meaning between a
whispered and a "normal" sound• a speech variant across all languages• no special IPA symbol for whispered
sounds
How to Find Out the Distinction Method of Analysis
• two non-words "sha" and "shu", spoken in "normal voice" and whispered mode
• recorded with cool edit
• converted into spectrograms by Praat
Intensity
The yellow line shows that the intensity in normal speech is higher
than in whispered speech
Formants• more "red dots" in normal speech
• formants at a lower frequency only in normal speech
• more acoustic energy in normal speech