Speaker sex identification from voiced, whispered, and filtered isolated vowels

Speaker-Sex Discrimination for Voiced and Whispered Vowels at Short Durations

Whispered vowels, produced with no vocal fold vibration, lack the periodic temporal fine structure which in voiced vowels underlies the perceptual attribute of pitch (a salient auditory cue to speaker sex). Voiced vowels possess no temporal fine structure at very short durations (below two glottal cycles). The prediction was that speaker-sex discrimination performance for whispered and voiced v...

Pitch of voiced and whispered vowels

The Formant Comparison between Chinese Whispered and Voiced Vowels

In this paper, an improved dynamic programming (IDP) algorithm based on wild card mechanism and continuity constraint for the formant tracking is proposed, and the ratios of Chinese whispered to voiced formants are statistically analyzed. Experiments were performed on six Chinese simple blade vowels with four tones uttered by 20 speakers. The formant differences are quantified by the ratios of ...

Automatic speaker identification using the magnitude and phase spectra of inverse - filtered voiced speech

A speaker identification experiment was performed with the 10 digits of the TI46 data corpus, spoken in isolation by 8 female and 8 male speakers. From each voiced frame of an utterance, a single fundamental period was extracted automatically and inverse-filtered to obtain an approximation of the glottal excitation function. Differently sized feature vectors were derived from the magnitude and ...

Identification of Sex of the Speaker With Reference To Bodo Vowels: A Comparative Experimental Study

This work presents an application of Fundamental Frequency (Pitch), Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficient (LPCC) and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) in identification of sex of the speaker in speech recognition research. The aim of this article is to compare the performance of these three methods for identification of sex of the speakers. A successful speech recognition system can he...