Audio features selection for automatic height estimation from speech

T Ganchev, I Mporas, N Fakotakis - … : 6th Hellenic Conference on AI, SETN …, 2010 - Springer
Aiming at the automatic estimation of the height of a person from speech, we investigate the
applicability of various subsets of speech features, which were formed on the basis of …

The perceptual organization of sine-wave speech under competitive conditions

B Roberts, RJ Summers, PJ Bailey - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Speech comprises dynamic and heterogeneous acoustic elements, yet it is heard as a
single perceptual stream even when accompanied by other sounds. The relative …

Study on pharyngeal and uvular consonants in foreign accented Arabic for ASR

YA Alotaibi, G Muhammad - Computer Speech & Language, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the unique pharyngeal and uvular consonants of Arabic from the
point of view of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Comparisons of the recognition error …

Speaker verification and identification using principal component analysis based on global eigenvector matrix

M Kim, E Kim, C Seo, S Jeon - … , HAIS 2010, San Sebastián, Spain, June 23 …, 2010 - Springer
Prinicipal component anaysis (PCA) is one of the most general purpose feature extraction
methods. A variety of methods for PCA has been proposed. Many conventional methods …