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Speaker Classification I: Fundamentals, Features, and Methods

By Christian Müller (eds.) , Volker Dellwo , Mark Huckvale , Michael Ashby (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2007
ISBN
3540741860, 9783540741862
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-74200-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4375083 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4343 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition
1
Pages
355\362
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2010-02-05 01:51:52
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); LanguageImage and Speech Processing

Description

As well as conveying a message in words and sounds, the speech signal carries information about the speaker's own anatomy, physiology, linguistic experience and mental state. These speaker characteristics are found in speech at all levels of description: from the spectral information in the sounds to the choice of words and utterances themselves. This volume and its companion volume, LNAI 4441, constitute a state-of-the-art survey for the field of speaker classification. They approach the following questions: What characteristics of the speaker become manifest in his or her voice and speaking behavior? Which of them can be inferred from analyzing the acoustic realizations? What can this information be used for? Which methods are the most suitable for diversified problems in this area of research? How should the quality of the results be evaluated? The 19 contributions to this volume comprise general and overview-like articles that are organized in topical sections on fundamentals, characteristics, applications, methods and features, as well as evaluation.

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