Abstract:The fundamental frequency feature is crucial for Automatic Speech Recognition because its patterns convey a para-language and its tuning normalizes other speech features. Human speech is multidimensional because it is minimally represented by three variables: the intonation (or pitch), the formants (or timbre), and the speech resolution (or depth). These variables represent the hidden states of the local glottal variation, the vocal tract response, and the frequency scale, respectively. Computing them one by o… Show more
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