ABSTRACT
Within this paper, the authors report on an experiment on automatic labelling of perceived voice roughness (R) and breathiness (B), according to the GRBAS scale. The main objective of the experiment has not been to correlate objective measures to perceived R and B, but to automatically evaluate R and B. For this purpose, a system has been trained that extracts the first mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) of available sustained vowel phonations. Afterwards, a classifier has been trained to estimate the corresponding degrees of roughness and breathiness. The obtained results reveal a significant correlation between subjective and automatic labelling, hence indicating the feasibility of objective evaluation of voice quality by means of perceptually meaningful measures.
