Implementation of interactive tools for investigating fundamental frequency response of voiced sounds to auditory stimulation
This provides a practical tool for researchers studying voice control mechanisms, though it is incremental as it builds on existing measurement concepts.
The researchers tackled the technical difficulty of measuring the involuntary response of voice fundamental frequency to auditory stimulation by developing an interactive real-time tool with a novel measurement method based on extended time-stretched pulses and orthogonalization, making it available as open-source MATLAB code.
We introduced a measurement procedure for the involuntary response of voice fundamental-frequency to frequency modulated auditory stimulation. This involuntary response plays an essential role in voice fundamental frequency control while less investigated due to technical difficulties. This article introduces an interactive and real-time tool for investigating this response and supporting tools adopting our new measurement method. The method enables simultaneous measurement of multiple system properties based on a novel set of extended time-stretched pulses combined with orthogonalization. We made MATLAB implementation of these tools available as an open-source repository. This article also provides the detailed measurement procedure using the interactive tool followed by offline measurement tools for conducting subjective experiments and statistical analyses. It also provides technical descriptions of constituent signal processing subsystems as appendices. This application serves as an example for adopting our method to biological system analysis.