Paper Info
Title
The Relationship Between Acoustic And Perceived Intraspeaker Variability In Voice Quality
Abstract
Little is known about intraspeaker changes in voice across changing speaking situations in everyday life. In this study, we examined acoustic variations between and within 5 talkers and their effect on the likelihood that voice samples would not be identified as coming from the same talker. Talkers were drawn from a large database recorded to capture everyday variations in vocal characteristics. Nine samples of /a/, recorded on three different days, were examined for each talker. Acoustic characteristics were estimated using VoiceSauce and analysis-by-synthesis, and listeners judged whether pairs of voices came from the same or two different talkers. Results indicate that interspeaker variability in voice quality exceeds intraspeaker variability, but differences are smaller than expected. As predicted by models that treat voice quality as an auditory pattern, the acoustic attributes associated with incorrect "different speaker" responses varied from talker to talker, depending on the particular characteristics of the voice in question.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2015), VOLS 1-5
voice quality, speaker recognition, intra-speaker variability
Field
DocType
Citations 
Everyday life,Computer science,Speech recognition
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jody Kreiman1468.35
Soo-Jin Park2636.63
Patricia A. Keating314325.42
Abeer Alwan472988.19