Voice Perception Laboratory
Voice Perception Laboratory
Current projects
- Principal Investigator, NIH NIDCD Individual Research Grant "Toward standardizing perceptual voice quality measures" (DC01797), 2005-2010.
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Co-Principal Investigator, NSF Grant BCS-0720304, "Production and perception of linguistic voice quality", 2007-2010. PI: Patricia Keating.
Members
- Principal Investigator: Jody Kreiman, PhD; Bruce R. Gerratt, PhD
- Collaborators: Professor Abeer Alwan - Electrical Engineering; Professor Patricia Keating - Linguistics; Norma Antoñanzas-Barroso - senior programmer/analyst.
- Undergraduate Students: Theresa Fiddler; Larina Luu
Recent Publications
- Kreiman, J., Gerratt, B.R., and Antonanzas-Barroso (2007). Measures of the glottal source spectrum. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 595-610.
- Kreiman, J., Gerratt, B.R., and Ito, M. (2007) When and why listeners disagree in voice quality assessment tasks. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 122, 2354-2364.
- Antonanzas-Barroso, N., Kreiman, J., and Gerratt, B.R. (2008). Recent improvements to the University of California, Los Angeles' voice synthesizer. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 5, 060001.
- Shue, Y-L., Kreiman, J., & Alwan, A. (2009). A novel codebook search technique for estimating the open quotient. Interspeech 2009, 2895-2898.
- Kreiman, J., Antoñanzas-Barroso, N., and Gerratt, B.R. (in press). Integrated software for analysis and synthesis of voice quality. To appear in Behavior Research Methods.
- Kreiman, J., and Gerratt, B.R. (in press). Perceptual assessment of voice quality: Past, present, and future. To appear in E. Ma and Y. Yiu (eds.), Handbook of Voice Assessments (San Diego: Plural).
Highlights/News
Book in preparation: Foundations of Voice Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Voice Production and Perception by Jody Kreiman (UCLA) and Diana Sidtis (NYU), forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell
Contact Information
Jody Kreiman, PhD:
Email: jkreiman@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-0736
For more information, please visit The UCLA Bureau of Glottal Affairs website.

















