Auditory speaker recognition : a theoretical and experimental study
Speaker recognition is defined as the.ability to recognise a speaker's identity on the basis of hearing a sample of his speech. Previous approaches to the subject have concentrated on the experimental manipulation in isolation of acoustic features of the speech signal. The theoretical approach adopted here attempts to provide a conceptual framework for speaker recognition, in which emphasis is laid on auditory speaker recognition (as opposed to speaker recognition by machine or by the visual examination of spectrograms (~voiceprints~)). The everyday use of speaker recognition is discussed in contrast to the possible artificialities of experimental formats. The nature and utilisation of phonetic speaker-characterising features of voice are examined within the context of (i) other levels of features (syntactic, semantic, lexical , etc.) (ii) other forms of indexical information (sex, age, regional origin, social status, etc.) and (iii) other identity characteristics (names, physical appearance, etc.). Attention is also focussed on two variables in the speaker recognition process which have been relatively neglected by previous writers and researchers: (i) The nature and implications of differences in the tasks
Brown, Roger S.
Linguistics
Auditory speaker recognition : a theoretical and experimental study. Speaker recognition is defined as the.ability to recognise a speaker's identity on the basis of hearing a sample of his speech. Previous approaches to the subject have concentrated on the experimental manipulation in isolation of acoustic features of the speech signal. The theoretical approach adopted here attempts to provide a conceptual framework for speaker recognition, in which emphasis is laid on auditory speaker recognition (as opposed to speaker recognition by machine or by the visual examination of spectrograms (~voiceprints~)). The everyday use of speaker recognition is discussed in contrast to the possible artificialities of experimental formats. The nature and utilisation of phonetic speaker-characterising features of voice are examined within the context of (i) other levels of features (syntactic, semantic, lexical , etc.) (ii) other forms of indexical information (sex, age, regional origin, social status, etc.) and (iii) other identity characteristics (names, physical appearance, etc.). Attention is also focussed on two variables in the speaker recognition process which have been relatively neglected by previous writers and researchers: (i) The nature and implications of differences in the tasks
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