Great news - blue sky 🦋 is now open to the public- no more invites needed to join! Come join the growing scientific community there https://t.co/N2Y7buJhzl
My dissertation "The phonetics of speech breathing : pauses, physiology, acoustics, and perception" has been published and is available as open access via https://t.co/3d7PqWuVI9 📖🔓
New work (preprint) with Wim Pouw, @LaraBurchardt, and Luc Selen on vocalization and biomechanical interactions with the whole body: "The human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics" 🗣️🙋♀️🙅♀️🙆♀️
preprint: https://t.co/ENyUFek1WL
RMarkdown: https://t.co/f8iLUr7tXp
Our paper is out and OA🔓🥳
It's the first description of the spectral characteristics of speech breath noises produced by a large number of speakers. In addition, we modeled in- and exhalations with 3D-printed vocal tract models 🫁
3) We tried to compare real inhalations and model inhalations but there is a myriad of mechanisms that are either hard to model or still un(der)-researched for speech breathing, so there's many interesting things left to do :)
2) Comparing in- vs exhalation spectra in the 3D-printed VT models, airflow direction changes the spectral properties /s ʃ ç i:/, but not the other sounds we investigated.⬅️➡️
The main findings are:
1) The breath noises have several weak peaks that align with resonances found in a very controlled setting where participants inhaled with the VT configuration of a central vowel in https://t.co/yu8dFsQrIn
Happy to share that I have started a position as research assistant with Wim Pouw at the @DondersInst, @Radboud_Uni 🥳I'll be working on the interaction of gestures, voice production, muscles, and posture 🙂