Voice Quality: Functions, Analysis and Synthesis August 27-29, 2003 Geneva, Switzerland

Analysis of Parameter Importance in Speaker Identity

Juana M. Gutiérrez-Arriola (1), Juan Manuel Montero (2), Ricardo Córdoba (2), José Manuel Pardo (2)

(1) Departamento de Ingeniería de Circuitos y Sistemas, (2) Grupo de Tecnología del Habla, Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

We present the analysis performed over eleven speakers (five women and 6 men) in order to obtain the most important parameters as far as speaker identity is concerned. Parameters that have been studi studied are F0, six formants, five bandwidths ed and four source parameters. Feature selection is based on linear discriminant analysis. Results show that the most relevant parameter is F0, followed by formant frequencies and open quotient.

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Bibliographic reference.  Gutiérrez-Arriola, Juana M. / Montero, Juan Manuel / Córdoba, Ricardo / Pardo, José Manuel (2003): "Analysis of parameter importance in speaker identity", In VOQUAL'03, 103-106.