Dialect Accent Features for Establishing Speaker Identity A Case Study /

Dialect Accent Features for Establishing Speaker Identity: A Case Study discusses the subject of forensic voice identification and speaker profiling. Specifically focusing on speaker profiling and using dialects of the Hindi language, widely used in India, the authors have contributed to the body of...

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Main Authors: Kulshreshtha, Manisha (Author), Mathur, Ramkumar (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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Summary:Dialect Accent Features for Establishing Speaker Identity: A Case Study discusses the subject of forensic voice identification and speaker profiling. Specifically focusing on speaker profiling and using dialects of the Hindi language, widely used in India, the authors have contributed to the body of research on speaker identification by using accent feature as the discriminating factor. This case study contributes to the understanding of the speaker identification process in a situation where unknown speech samples are in different language/dialect than the recording of a suspect. The authors' data establishes that vowel quality, quantity, intonation and tone of a speaker as compared to Khariboli (standard Hindi) could be the potential features for identification of dialect accent.
Physical Description:XII, 60 p. online resource.
ISBN:9781461411383
ISSN:2191-8112