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Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody
Published on: September 27, 2024
Discussant response to 'Does the acoustic waveform mirror the voice?'
1Media Engineering Research Group, Department of Electronics, University of York, UK. d.h@ohm.york.ac.uk
Abstract:
The acoustic waveform that reaches the two ears of a listener can convey the intended message. Over the telephone, this waveform is the only source of information from the speaker, since the listener is out of visual contact; indeed, in this situation the acoustic waveform itself is restricted in its frequency content. Whilst the listener can infer much about the speaker from the acoustic waveform, including the speaker's age, gender, nationality, dialect, and emotional state, the issue under consideration here is the extent to which quantitative analysis of the acoustic waveform can provide useful information about a speaker's voice. This paper was presented as an Invited Discussant Response, at the Pan-European Voice Conference (PEVOC6) in London, to the question posed in Ternström's Invited Keynote Lecture 1: Does the acoustic waveform mirror the voice?
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