Abstract
Acoustic radiation impedance of the mouth is an important parameter when the vocal tract is modelled by the equivalent electrical circuit. If the vocal tract is closed by a cavity, as when the speaker wears some kind of mask, total impedance acoustically loading the vocal tract becomes serial connection of the mouth radiation impedance and the mask impedance. In that case the mouth radiation impedance has to be changed compared to free field conditions. This paper introduces a simplified approach to the modelling of that change by an appropriate reduction coefficient. The analysis based on an experiment preformed by measurement in the vocal tract physical model accompanied with analytical estimation has shown that the value of such reduction coefficient is 0.5. The results reveal that for a vocal tract closed with mask cavity the change in mouth radiation impedance introduced in an equivalent electrical circuit can be approximated by the value for free field radiation decreased by about 50%.
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