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Some Acoustic Cues to Human and Machine Estimation of Speaker Age

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Summary, in English

Two experiments were carried out in order to learn more about the relation between the various acoustic cues to speaker age. The first included listening tests with resynthesized stimuli, and the second comprised automatic estimation of age using the CART (Classification And Regression Trees) technique. In the first experiment, results indicate that human listeners seem to rely more on spectral cues than on F0 and duration when judging age. The results of the second experiment seem to agree with the first, as formant frequencies outperformed the other

features in the CART tests. The acoustics and perception of speaker age will be studied further using a larger material and additional methods.

Department/s

Publishing year

2004

Language

English

Pages

40-43

Publication/Series

Proc. of Fonetik 2004

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Conference name

Fonetik 2004

Conference date

2004-05-24 - 2004-05-28

Conference place

Stockholm, Sweden

Status

Published

Project

  • SweDia 2000