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Voice quality

voice quality
voice quality is that component of speech which gives the primary distinction to a given speaker’s voice when pitch and loudness are excluded. It involves both phonatory and resonatory characteristics. Some of the descriptions of voice quality are harshness, breathiness and nasality.


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