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A new class of tonal sounds can be generated by repeating brief sections of noise over and over without intervening silence. When the repeated waveform is white noise, a “white tone” with a rich distinctive timbre and no noise-like quality is heard over a considerable range of repetition rates. If the noise is a whispered vowel rather than white noise, repetition of a sample equal in duration to a single glottal pulse during voicing can generate a “whisper tone” sounding like a voiced version of the vowel. Whispered discourse can be converted to an intelligible voiced monotone by repetition of regularly spaced samples drawn from the whis- pered speech.
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The research was supported by NSF Grant BMS73-06787,NIH Grant HD07855, and by the University of WisconsinMilwaukee Graduate School.’ We thank Mr. Joseph Nyland for his valuable technical help.
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Warren, R.M., Bashford, J.A. Production of white tone from white noise and voiced speech from whisper. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 11, 327–329 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336845
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