Analyzing features for automatic age estimation on cross-sectional data

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2923-2926

  Spiegl, Werner ^a   Stemmer, Georg ^b   Lasarcyk, Eva ^c   Kolhatkar, Varada ^d   Cassidy, Andrew ^e   Potard, Blaise ^f   Shum, Stephen ^g   Song, Young Chol ^h   Xu, Puyang ^e   Beyerlein, Peter ⁱ   Harnsberger, James ^j   Nöth, Elmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SVOX Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^e Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^f CRIN   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Stony Brook University   (United States)

ⁱ Berlin University of Applied Sciences   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Age estimation; Age regression; Prosodic features; Support vector regression (SVR); Vocal aging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AGE ESTIMATION; CHRONOLOGICAL AGE; FORMANT FREQUENCY; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; PROSODIC FEATURES; RELATIVE REDUCTION; SPEECH SIGNALS; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSIONS; UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; LABELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 70450201151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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