Double pitch marks in diplophonic voice

Determination of pitch marks (PMs) is necessary in clinical voice assessment for the measurement of fundamental frequency (F0) and perturbation. In voice with ambiguous F0, PM determination is crucial, and its validity needs special attention. The study at hand proposes a new approach for PM determination from Laryngeal High-Speed Videos (LHSVs), rather than from the audio signal. In this novel approach, double PMs are extracted from a diplophonic voice sample, in order to account for ambiguous F0s. The LHSVs are spectrally analyzed in order to extract dominant oscillation frequencies of the vocal folds. Unit pulse trains with these frequencies are created as PM trains and compensated for the phase shift. The PMs are compared to Praat´s single audio PMs. It is shown that double PMs are needed in order to analyze diplophonic voice, because traditional single PMs do not explain its double-source characteristic.