Reducing speaker variation in Germanic: Improved results with PARAFAC

Exploring Dialect Phonetic Variation Using PARAFAC

In this paper we apply the multi-way decomposition method PARAFAC in order to detect the most prominent sound changes in dialect variation. We investigate various phonetic patterns, both in stressed and unstressed syllables. We proceed from regular sound correspondences which are automatically extracted from the aligned transcriptions and analyzed using PARAFAC. This enables us to analyze simul...

Tone in Germanic: Comparing Limburgian with Swedish

An improved speaker diarization system

This paper describes an automatic speaker diarization system for natural, multi-speaker meeting conversations. Only one central microphone is used to record the meeting. The new system is robust to different acoustic environments it requires neither pre-training models nor development sets to initialize the parameters. The new system determines the model complexity automatically. It adapts the ...

Speaker variation in English prosodic boundary*

Yoon, Tae-Jin. 2014. Speaker variation in English prosodic boundary. Linguistic Research 31(1), 1-23. This paper analyses the rate of inter-speaker consistency in the way multiple speakers render prosodic events when they read the same scripts. Prosodically labeled data of five speakers from the Boston Radio Speech Corpus (BURSC) are used to measure the degree of speaker variation in rendering ...

Improved Speaker Verification through Pro

In this paper we propose a new adaptation technique for improved text-independent speaker verification with limited amounts of training data using Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). The technique, referred to as probabilistic subspace adaptation (PSA), employs a probabilistic subspace description of how a client’s parametric representation (i.e. GMM) is allowed to vary. Our technique is compared t...