The phonetic bases of speaker recognition

Nolan, Francis

doi:10.1016/0167-6393(87)90039-2

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“…(For an extensive discussion of potentially relevant parameters in SID see Hollien 1990;Kiinzel 1987;Nolan 1983). As Kiinzel (1994) points out, we do not yet know all the parameters that are potentially relevant in forensic SID.…”

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The effect of removing linguistic information upon identifying speakers of a foreign language

Schiller

Koester

Duckworth³

1997

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The native-language background of a listener has been shown to have an effect upon identifying speakers of a foreign language. Previous experimental research showed that a German target speaker was identified significantly better when listeners were native speakers of German, or native speakers of English who had some knowledge of German, than when they did not know the language of the target speaker (Schiller and Koster 1996). This result was taken as support for the hypothesis that familiarity with the language of the target speaker has a positive effect upon identifying that speaker. This paper reports the results of a follow-up experiment that investigated the identification of a speaker in a voice line-up using nonsense speech. The results show that German natives, monolingual English natives, and English natives with some knowledge of German do not significantly differ in identifying a German speaker when most of the linguistic information of the language of the target speaker is removed from the stimulus materials.

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The effect of removing linguistic information upon identifying speakers of a foreign language

Schiller

Koester

Duckworth³

1997

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“…Although the perception of specific vocal qualities stems from the glottal spectrum and its supralaryngeal modification, these timbral attributes are only a portion of the differences available for distinguishing talkers perceptually, as studies have recently shown. When a listener becomes familiar with a new talker, the remembered characteristics are likely to include aspects of the talker's habits of producing speech sounds in addition to voice quality (Goldinger, 1996;Lieberman, 1963;Nolan, 1983;Nygaard, Somers, & Pisoni, 1994;Pickett & Pollack, 1963;Sheffert & Fowler, 1995). The idiolectal properties that distinguish talkers were also implicated perceptually in a recent study in which listeners identified familiar talkers from sine wave signals that lacked the pitch and timbre of natural speech (Remez et al, 1997).…”

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Perceiving the sex and identity of a talker without natural vocal timbre

Fellowes

Remez

Rubin

1997

Perception & Psychophysics

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The personal attributes of a talker perceived via acoustic properties of speech are commonly considered to be an extralinguistic message of an utterance. Accordingly, accounts of the perception of talker attributes have emphasized a causal role of aspects of the fundamental frequency and coarsegrain acoustic spectra distinct from the detailed acoustic correlates of phonemes. In testing this view, in four experiments, we estimated the ability of listeners to ascertain the sex or the identity of 5 male and 5 female talkers from sinusoidal replicas of natural utterances, which lack fundamental frequency and natural vocal spectra. Given such radically reduced signals, listeners appeared to identify a talker's sex according to the central spectral tendencies of the sinusoidal constituents. Under acoustic conditions that prevented listeners from determining the sex of a talker, individual identification from sinewave signals was often successful. These results reveal that the perception of a talker's sex and identity are not contingent and that fine-grain aspects of a talker's phonetic production can elicit individual identification under conditions that block the perception of voice quality.What can a listener perceive in the speech of an unfamiliar talker? Even a brief utterance can convey a linguistic message and something about the talker who produced it. Although the perception ofpersonal attributes has commonly been explained by an account separate from the perception of linguistic properties, a recent study has shown that phonetic details can also be used to identify talkers and to distinguish them from one another (Remez, Fellowes, & Rubin, 1997). Surprisingly, when acoustic test materials forced performance to depend on phonetic attributes, listeners occasionally mistook male talkers for female talkers, and vice versa. The present report describes a series of experiments intended to clarify the interpretation ofthis counterintuitive finding, posing these questions: (1) Is the sex of a talker identifiable in a sine wave utterance replica? (2) Are differences across talkers in the central spectral tendency ofthe sinusoidal constituents responsible for differing impressions of the sex of a sine wave talker? (3) Are individuals identifiable under acoustic conditions that preclude the identification of sex?Many studies of talker recognition by ear, by automatic classification, or by visual inspection of spectroThis research was supported by Grants DC00308 (to R.E.R.) and HDOl994 (to Haskins Laboratories) from the National Institutes of Health.The authors gratefully acknowledge the meticulous assistance and trenchant advice of Chris Darwin, Steve Goldinger, Harry Levitt, Jennifer Lipton, Larry Rosenblum, Jim Sawusch, Dalia Shoretz, Saskia Smith, Steve Stroessner, Doug Whalen, and Fay Xing. Correspondence should be addressed to R. E. Remez, Department of Psychology, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598 (e-mail: remez@paradise.barnard.columbia.edu).grams have sought to tie variation across individu...

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“…As argued by Nolan (1983), the phonetic information plays a critical role in speaker recognition. Obviously, our partitioning strategy tends to facilitate encoding speaker's characteristics on the basis of a single phoneme.…”

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On the use of nearest feature line for speaker identification

Chen

Zhang

2002

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As a new pattern classification method, nearest feature line (NFL) provides an effective way to tackle the sort of pattern recognition problems where only limited data are available for training. In this paper, we explore the use of NFL for speaker identification in terms of limited data and examine how the NFL performs in such a vexing problem of various mismatches between training and test. In order to speed up NFL in decision-making, we propose an alternative method for similarity measure. We have applied the improved NFL to speaker identification of different operating modes. Its text-dependent performance is better than the dynamic time warping (DTW) on the Ti46 corpus, while its computational load is much lower than that of DTW. Moreover, we propose an utterance partitioning strategy used in the NFL for better performance. For the text-independent mode, we employ the NFL to be a new similarity measure in vector quantization (VQ), which causes the VQ to perform better on the KING corpus. Some computational issues on the NFL are also discussed in this paper.

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The phonetic bases of speaker recognition

Cited by 131 publications

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The effect of removing linguistic information upon identifying speakers of a foreign language

The effect of removing linguistic information upon identifying speakers of a foreign language

Perceiving the sex and identity of a talker without natural vocal timbre

On the use of nearest feature line for speaker identification

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