Citation
Gómez Vilda, Pedro and Belmonte Useros, Elisa and Rodellar Biarge, M. Victoria and Nieto Lluis, Victor and Álvarez Marquina, Agustin and Mazaira Fernández, Luis Miguel
(2013).
Biomechanical evaluation of the singing voice.
In: "8th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications", 16-18 Dic 2013, Florencia, Italia. pp. 137-140.
Abstract
Teaching the adequate use of the singing voice conveys a lot of knowledge in musical performance as well as in objective estimation techniques involving the use of air, muscles, room and body acoustics, and the tuning of a fine instrument as the human voice. Although subjective evaluation and training is a very delicate task to be carried out only by expert singers, biomedical engineering may help contributing with well-funded methodologies developed for the study of voice pathology. The present work is a preliminary study of exploratory character describing the performance of a student singer in a regular classroom under the point of view of vocal fold biomechanics. Estimates of biomechanical parameters obtained from singing voice are given and their potential use is discussed.