Journal of Voice
Volume 23, Issue 5 , Pages 539-545 , September 2009

Text Intelligibility and the Singer's Formant—A Relationship?

  • Johan Sundberg

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to Johan Sundberg, Department of Speech Music Hearing, KTH Voice Research Centre, SE-100 44 Stockholm.
  • ,
  • Camilla Romedahl

,Accepted 10 January 2008.

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 First presented at the 35th Annual Symposium Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, June 2006.

PII: S0892-1997(08)00011-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2008.01.010

Journal of Voice
Volume 23, Issue 5 , Pages 539-545 , September 2009