Journal article
Can Vocal Kindness Be Quantified?
Journal of singing, Vol.75(4), pp.443-444
03/01/2019
Abstract
In a contest for food, a mate, or protection of a social unit, bodily injury can be avoided by signaling physical superiority with energetic calls or screams, thereby avoiding life threatening injury from physical confrontation. Sadness and tenderness differentiated from anger, joy, and pride on the bases on low vs. high levels of loudness, variable dynamics, high perturbation (roughness), and spectral energy balance. While studies are scarce on the precise topic of kindness, we can draw preliminary conclusions that kindness in vocal communication may be quantified acoustically by: 1) tonal sounds with not much roughness; 2) sounds that favor the lower part of the harmonic spectrum (warmth rather than brilliance); 3) sounds that are not excessively loud; 4) a presentation that includes some pauses for cognitive and emotional processing; and 5) a limit of the rate of successive sound units presented to the listener.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Can Vocal Kindness Be Quantified?
- Creators
- Ingo Titze
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of singing, Vol.75(4), pp.443-444
- Publisher
- National Association of Teachers of Singing
- ISSN
- 1086-7732
- eISSN
- 2769-4046
- Number of pages
- 2
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- School of Music; Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984719743702771
Metrics
1 Record Views