Reliability of human-supervised formant-trajectory measurement for forensic voice comparison

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Cuiling ^a   Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart ^a,b   Ochoa, Felipe ^b   Enzinger, Ewald ^b  

^a CHINA CRIMINAL POLICE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC-PHONETIC APPROACH; BASELINE SYSTEMS; HUMAN SUPERVISORS;

RELIABILITY;

SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELEPHONE; TIME; VOICE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TELEPHONE; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872073195     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4773223     Document Type: Article

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