Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: December | Volume: 9 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 62-67
Acoustic Features of Cry of Infants with High Risk Factors
Meghashree1, Dr. N. P. Nataraja2
1Ph.D. Research Scholar, 2Director & Professor,
JSS Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, Karnataka, India.
Corresponding Author: Meghashree
ABSTRACT
To determine the acoustic parameters which differentiate cries of high risk infants from normal infants, cry samples of 200 infants, which included 100 normal infants and 100 high risk infants were analyzed using PRAAT software. Results indicated that there were statistically significant differences between cries of infants with high risk factors and normal infants in Mean fundamental frequency, maximum fundamental frequency, jitter (Local), shimmer (Local), number of voice breaks and harmonic to noise ratio.
Key words: Infants, cry, and high risk factors.