Abstract
The voice of soprano singers reaches at the highest notes among female vocalists. Soprano singers usually have low clarity with respect to pronunciation because their jaw joints and mouth shapes tend to stay rigid in order to maintain high notes for a long time. Five formants found in human voice are differently shaped depending on his or her different physical structures. Especially, high clarity in pronunciation has a distinct formant shape from F1 through F5, because the jaw joint and the mouth shape have a large influence on F4 and F5 appearing in the high frequency range. This paper comparatively analyzes the vocal voices of four different Korean soprano singers concerning clarity in pronunciation. The results of acoustic analysis of these four singers shows that the singer A and the singer D show from F1 ~ up to F3 above 2 kHz but F4 and F5 do not appear in this range, and the singer C had somewhat inconsistency with her formant characteristics as a whole. In the singer B, formants from F1 through F...
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