Perceptual distances of breathy voice quality: A comparison of psychophysical methods

摘要

ObjectiveExperiments to study voice quality have typically used rating scales or direct magnitude estimation to obtain listener judgments. Unfortunately, the data obtained using these tasks is context-dependent, which makes it difficult to compare perceptual judgments of voice quality across experiments. The present experiment describes a simple matching task to quantify voice quality. The data obtained through this task was compared to perceptual judgments obtained using rating scale and direct magnitude estimation tasks to evaluate whether the three tasks provide equivalent perceptual distances across stimuli.