Likelihood-ratio forensic voice comparison using parametric representations of the formant trajectories of diphthongs

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2387-2397

  Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT VALUES; CROSS-VALIDATED LIKELIHOODS; ERROR RATES; FORMANT TRAJECTORIES; FUSED SYSTEMS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; LOG LIKELIHOODS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MALE SPEAKERS; PARAMETRIC CURVES; PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS;

COSINE TRANSFORMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; LANGUAGE; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADULT; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHONETICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64649092391     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3081384     Document Type: Article

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