Speaker classification in forensic phonetics and acoustics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4343 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 180-204

  Jessen, Michael ^a  

^a Bundeskriminalamt ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Dialect; Foreign accent; Formants; Fundamental frequency; Gender sex; Sociolect; Speaker size height; Speech pathology

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

FORENSIC PHONETICS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; SPEAKER CLASSIFICATION; SPEECH PATHOLOGY; VOICE ANALYSIS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 36248948642     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74200-5_10     Document Type: Article

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