Profiling Humans from their Voice

Description

This book is about recent research in the area of profiling humans from their voice, which seeks to deduce and describe the speaker's entire persona and their surroundings from voice alone. It covers several key aspects of this technology, describing how the human voice is unique in its ability to both capture and influence the human persona -- how, in some ways, voice is more potent and valuable then DNA and fingerprints as a metric, since it not only carries information about the speaker, but also about their current state and their surroundings at the time of speaking. It provides a comprehensive review of advances made in multiple scientific fields that now contribute to its foundations. It describes how artificial intelligence enables mechanisms of discovery that were not possible before in this context, driving the field forward in unprecedented ways. It also touches upon related and relevant challenges posed by voice disguise and other mechanisms of voice manipulation. The book acts as a good resource for academic researchers, and for professional agencies in many areas such as law enforcement, healthcare, social services, entertainment etc. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Profiling and Its Facets (Rita Singh)....Pages 3-26 Production and Perception of Voice (Rita Singh)....Pages 27-83 Relations Between Voice and Profile Parameters (Rita Singh)....Pages 85-131 The Voice Signal and Its Information Content—1 (Rita Singh)....Pages 133-169 The Voice Signal and Its Information Content—2 (Rita Singh)....Pages 171-220 Qualitative Aspects of the Voice Signal (Rita Singh)....Pages 221-266 Front Matter ....Pages 267-267 Feature Engineering for Profiling (Rita Singh)....Pages 269-298 Mechanisms for Profiling (Rita Singh)....Pages 299-324 Reconstruction of the Human Persona in 3D from Voice, and its Reverse (Rita Singh)....Pages 325-363 Applied Profiling: Uses, Reliability and Ethics (Rita Singh)....Pages 365-405 Back Matter ....Pages 407-412