UCLA Bureau of Glottal Affairs

Our colleague Bruce Gerratt is now Professor Emeritus, which means he doesn't have to waste time in clinic any more. Congratulations to him and welcome back to the full-time research fold!

Now available from Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics: Voice and Voice Quality.

Voice and Voice Quality - Linguistics - Oxford Bibliographies - obo The sound of a voice—its quality—plays an integral role in the biological and social existences of animal species ranging from frogs to birds to elephants to primates and humans. Across animal species, voice plays a part in many, many aspects of behavior, including mate selection and attraction,...

The Bureau is safe and so is everyone in it.

Forthcoming from the Bureau:

Kreiman, J. Voice and voice quality, in Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics (ed. Mark Aronoff). New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Lee, Y., Keating, P., and Kreiman, J., Acoustic voice variation within and between speakers, to appear in J. Acoust. Soc. Am.

UCLA at ICPhS

Look for us at ICPhS!!

Cynthia Lee presenting her wonderful poster at the Louisville ASA meeting.

Not glottal, but still a wonderful piece from the front page of today's Los Angeles Times about Pam Munro from the Linguistics Department. Very much worth reading!

Tongva, Los Angeles’ first language, opens the door to a forgotten time and place For decades Tongva, the language of the first people who lived in the Los Angeles region, was consigned to notebooks and papers hidden away in museums. Through the efforts of a UCLA linguist, Tongva is being spoken again, and another world is being revealed.

The University of California has ended negotiations with Elsevier and will no longer maintain current subscriptions to any Elsevier journals (although back issues will remain acceessible). As a former chair of the UCLA Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, I say good for us!

(Oh, and we're still looking for a postdoc...)

The Bureau of Glottal Affairs is looking for a post-doc with an interest in voice production. Facility with Matlab or similar is preferred. Please drop us a line if you are interested or have someone to suggest. Thank you! (Note: It's warm and sunny in Los Angeles right now, if that's an incentive.)

This still sounds like synthesis to me, but because of phonetic and prosodic issues. The voice quality is very good.

Artificial Intelligence Can Now Recreate Your Voice Within Minutes Bloomberg sends journalist Ashlee Vance to Canada to visit with the founders of Lyrebird, who have created an AI that can "clone human voices with frightening precision."

Now that the ICPhS and ASA abstracts are all submitted for this year, it's time to think about Interspeech! Please consider this special session for your contributions.

"Voice quality characterization for clinical voice assessment: Voice production, acoustics, and auditory perception." The aim of the special session is to contribute to the improvement of the clinical assessment of voice quality via a translational approach, which focuses on quantifying and explaining relationships between several levels of description. The goal is to objectify voice quality via (i) the analysis and simulation of vocal fold vibrations by means of high-speed videolaryngoscopy in combination with kinematic or mechanical modelling, (ii) the synthesis of disordered voices jointly with auditory experimentation involving synthetic and natural disordered voice stimuli, as well as (iii) the statistical analysis and automatic classification of distinct types of voice quality via non-obtrusively recorded features.