SPEAKER SEX IDENTIFICATION FROM VOICED, WHISPERED, AND FILTERED ISOLATED VOWELS
SPEAKER SEX IDENTIFICATION FROM VOICED, WHISPERED, AND FILTERED ISOLATED VOWELS
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DOI:
10.1121/1.380917
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
BOURNE, VT
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作者:
LASS, NJ;HUGHES, KR;BOURNE, VT
The relative importance of the speaker''s laryngeal fundamental frequency and vocal tract resonance characteristics was determined in speaker sex identification tasks. Six sustained isolated vowels were recorded by 20 speakers, 10 males and 10 females, in a normal and whispered manner. A total of 3 master tapes (voiced, whispered and filtered) were constructed from these recordings. The filtered tape involved 255-Hz low-pass filtering of the voiced tape. The tapes were played to 15 listeners for speaker sex identification judgments and confidence ratings of their evaluations. Results of their judgments indicated that, of the 1800 identifications made for each tape (20 speakers .times. 6 vowels .times. 15 listeners), 96% were correct for the voiced tape, 91% were correct for the filtered tape, and 75% were correct for the whispered tape. The listeners were most confident in their judgments on the voiced tape followed by the filtered tape and showed the least amount of confidence on the whispered tape. The laryngeal fundamental frequency appeared to be a more important acoustic cue in speaker sex identification tasks than the resonance characteristics of the speaker.