Answer to Question #289968 in Electrical Engineering for bhavana

Question

. Consider the variability of the vowel characteristics among speakers. If humans can create a phoneme from similar vocal tract shapes, but with different speaker identifiability, then the source and prosody must play a large role in speaker characteristics, as well as the vocal tract. A ventriloquist, for example, can keep his/her vocal tract in roughly the same shape (i.e. for a particular phoneme), yet mimic different voices. Offer an explanation in terms of source and prosodic characteristics.

Answer 1

The voice we hear is the product of timbre, frequency, loudness, and length of sounds. Any of these properties affects the result. Therefore, the change in any of the mentioned characteristics changes the voice.