ISCA Archive MAVEBA 2005
ISCA Archive MAVEBA 2005

Source voice characteristics of the artificial vocal folds

V. Misun

Specialised literature presents a number of models describing the function of the vocal folds. In most of those models an emphasis is placed on the effect of Bernoulli’s air underpressure during the air passage through the glottis. The author defines a principle of the vocal folds function with a working version name „principle of the compressed air bubble“. The paper deals with the experimental analysis of these artificial vocal folds and, first of all, with the properties and characteristics of the source voices generated by them. The main forces acting on the vocal folds during phonation are as follows: subglottal air pressure, elastic and inertia forces of the vocal folds structure.