Glottal and vocal tract characteristics of voice impersonators

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 668-678

  Amin, Talal Bin ^a   Marziliano, Pina ^a   German, James Sneed ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acoustic; disguise; formant; glottal; open quotient; speech rate; vocal tract; voice identity; voice impersonator

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DISGUISE; FORMANT; GLOTTAL; OPEN QUOTIENT; SPEECH RATES; VOCAL-TRACTS; VOICE IDENTITIES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84896907805     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2014.2300071     Document Type: Article

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