Large-scale analysis of formant frequency estimation variability in conversational telephone speech

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2203-2206

  Chen, Nancy F ^a   Shen, Wade ^a   Campbell, Joseph ^a   Schwartz, Reva ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b US Secret Service   (United States)

Author keywords

American English; Forensic phonetics; Formant frequency; Northern city chain shift; Spontaneous conversational speech; Telephone channel

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN ENGLISH; CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; FORENSIC APPLICATIONS; FORENSIC PHONETICS; FORMANT FREQUENCY; FORMANT FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; LANDLINE; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; NATIVE AMERICANS; NORTHERN CITY CHAIN SHIFT;

LINGUISTICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 70450186382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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