Volker Dellwo, Mark Huckvale, Michael Ashby (auth.), Christian Müller (eds.)3540741860, 9783540741862
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.
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
How Is Individuality Expressed in Voice? An Introduction to Speech Production and Description for Speaker Classification….Pages 1-20
Speaker Classification Concepts: Past, Present and Future….Pages 21-46
Speaker Characteristics….Pages 47-74
Foreign Accent….Pages 75-87
Acoustic Analysis of Adult Speaker Age….Pages 88-107
Speech Under Stress: Analysis, Modeling and Recognition….Pages 108-137
Speaker Characteristics and Emotion Classification….Pages 138-151
Emotions in Speech: Juristic Implications….Pages 152-173
Application of Speaker Classification in Human Machine Dialog Systems….Pages 174-179
Speaker Classification in Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics….Pages 180-204
Forensic Automatic Speaker Classification in the “Coming Paradigm Shift”….Pages 205-217
The Many Roles of Speaker Classification in Speaker Verification and Identification….Pages 218-225
Frame Based Features….Pages 226-240
Higher-Level Features in Speaker Recognition….Pages 241-259
Enhancing Speaker Discrimination at the Feature Level….Pages 260-277
Classification Methods for Speaker Recognition….Pages 278-297
Multi-stream Fusion for Speaker Classification….Pages 298-312
Evaluations of Automatic Speaker Classification Systems….Pages 313-329
An Introduction to Application-Independent Evaluation of Speaker Recognition Systems….Pages 330-353
Back Matter….Pages –
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