Comparison of four approaches to age and gender recognition for telephone applications

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Metze, Florian ^a   Ajmera, Jitendra ^a   Englert, Roman ^a   Bub, Udo ^a   Burkhardt, Felix ^b   Stegmann, Joachim ^b   Müller, Christian ^c   Huber, Richard ^d   Andrassy, Bernt ^e   Bauer, Josef G ^e   Littel, Bernhard ^e  

^a DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b T SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^d Sympalog Voice Solutions GmbH   (Germany)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic signal analysis; Age; Gender; Speaker classification; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; SPEAKER CLASSIFICATION; TELEPHONY SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547542381     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367263     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. Edward D. Mysak, "Pitch duration characteristics of older males," Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, vol. 2. pp. 46-54, 1959.
2. Sue E. Linville, Vocal Aging, Singular Publishing Group, San Diego. CA; USA. 2001.
3. Christian Müller, Frank Wittig, and Jörg Baus, "Exploiting speech for recognizing elderly users to respond to their special needs." in Proc. Eurospeech 2003. Geneva; Switzerland, Sept. 2003, ISCA.
4. Nobuaki Minematsu, Mariko Sekiguchi, and Keikichi Hirose, "Automatic estimation of one's age with his/ her speech based upon acoustic modeling techniques of speakers," in Proc. ICASSP 2002, Orlando. FL; USA, May 2002, IEEE.
5. Izhak Shafran, Michael Riley, and Mehryar Mohri. "Voice signatures," in Proc. ASRU 2003, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dec. 2003, IEEE.
6. Susanne Schötz, "Automatic prediction of speaker age using CART," Term paper for course in Forensic Phonetics, Göteborg University.
7. Thomas Hempel, "Usability of a telephone-based speech dialogue system as experienced by user groups of different age and background," in Proc. 2nd ISCA/DEGA Tutorial & Research Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems, Berlin; Germany. Sept. 2006, ISCA.
8. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), "http://www. speechdat.org/," http://www.elra.info/.
9. Jitendra Ajmera, "Effect of age and gender on LP smoothed spectral envelope," in Proc. Speaker Odyssey. 2006, IEEE.
10. Loredana Cerrato. Mauro Falcone, and Andrea Paoloni. "Subjective age estimation of telephonic voices," Speech Communication, vol. 31. no. 2-3, pp. 107-102, 2000.