Synchronous visualization of multimodal measurements on lips and glottis: comparison between brass instruments and the human voice production system.

Thomas Hézard (1, 2) , Vincent Freour (1, 2) , René Causse (1, 2) , Thomas Hélie (1, 2) , Gary P. Scavone (1, 2)

1 Equipe Acoustique instrumentale
2 Analyse et synthèse sonores [Paris]

Brass instruments and the human voice production system are both composed of a vibrating "human valve" (constriction in a pipe) coupled to an acoustic resonator: lips coupled to the brass instrument or vocal folds coupled to the vocal tract. In both cases, the aeroacoustic coupling is responsible for the self-oscillations and a large variety of regimes. Additionally, brass instruments and voice share difficulties for the in-vivo measurement of the exciter activity. Hence, the development of a common tool is relevant. It is also relevant to explore the effect of some known differences between these systems, namely, the strength of the coupling and the physiological characteristics. This paper introduces components for the development of such a tool. First, two corpuses of multi-modal measurements are presented: one for a singer's larynx during sustained vowels, one for a musician's lips during sustained notes. They include high-speed video (HSV) recordings, electrical impedance (EI) measurements (electrolabiograph/electroglottograph) and audio recordings (AR). Then, we introduce two estimation algorithms: (AW) one of the opening area waveforms from videos, (LF) one of the LF-model parameters on these waveforms. Moreover, we build a video tool displaying, synchronuously, the signals (HSV), (AW), (EI) and (AR) in time and frequency domains. Finally, this tool is exploited to exhibit common behaviors and relevant differences between brass instruments and human voice.

Mots clés: NA; Informatique musicale

Domaines: Acoustique [physics.class-ph]; Vibrations [physics.class-ph]; Neurosciences; Acoustique [physics.class-ph]; Vibrations [physics.class-ph]; Mécanique des solides [physics.class-ph]; Mécanique des structures [physics.class-ph]; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène; Son [cs.SD]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Thomas Hézard, Vincent Freour, René Causse, Thomas Hélie, Gary P. Scavone. Synchronous visualization of multimodal measurements on lips and glottis: comparison between brass instruments and the human voice production system.. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (ICA 2013), Jun 2013, Montréal, Canada. pp.1-7. ⟨hal-01161019⟩