Commentary on "Comparison of Word Intelligibility in Spoken and Sung Phrases" by Lauren Collister and David Huron
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2008-10
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Empirical Musicology Review
Abstract
We note that the intelligibility of vowels is reduced at high pitches, and propose that
decreased decoding of vowels may partially account for the reported findings. Analysis of
performance as a function of pitch is recommended. We surmise that reverberation associated with
the large microphone distance might have generated reverberation that interfered
disproportionately with identification of consonants in sung stimuli, which usually have greater
sound intensity than spoken stimuli. Finally, we note the potential relevance of vibrato for speech
intelligibility.
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intelligibility, singing, lyrics, voice
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Empirical Musicology Review, v3 n4 (October 2008), 215-217