This voicing exercise is designed to evaluate the client’s speech for inappropriate glottal stops and breathiness.
The client will be presented with a phrase in the Model box. After they have listened to the model, they should click Record in the Practice box, and say the phrase themselves.
When the client has finished recording, Speech Visualization will analyze the sound they produced and search for glottal attacks and breathiness. Glottal attacks will be highlighted in red and breathiness will be highlighted in yellow. Sound that is both glottal and breathy will be highlighted in pink.
Check and review Speech Visualization’s guesses. If you see an area marked that shouldn’t be, select it by highlighting it, then click Remove. If you want to mark an area as a glottal attack or as breathiness, select the area and click the Glottal or Breathy buttons next to Mark As.
After the appropriate ranges of sound are highlighted, Speech Visualization will display the overall glottal and breathy percentages to the right of the graph. Review these, then click Next when you are ready to continue.
If automatic saving is not enabled, the speech sample can be saved by clicking on the Save Recording... button. All of the samples for this exercise are saved in the same folder and given a name that starts with the word, followed by the date, and time. You can play the sample by clicking on the Load Recording... button and selecting it from the list.