Speaking under Cover: The Effect of Face-concealing Garments on Spectral Properties of Fricatives
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This paper firstly reports on the design of an audiovisual ‘face cover’ corpus. High-quality audio and video recordings were taken of 10 speakers reading phonetically-controlled stimuli under various face disguise conditions. Possible articulatory, acoustic and perceptual effects of the masks in a forensic context are introduced. Secondly, preliminary results of a spectral analysis of voiceless fricatives, taken from a subset of speakers, are presented.
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