The variability in the speech signal can be attributed to the following sources: (a) Phonetic content, (b) Speaker and Channel, and (c) Coarticulation or context. In this paper, the variability in speech is decomposed using Two Factor Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) with the above mentioned sources as factors. The speech variability is decomposed in temporal and spectral domain separately and structure of these sources of variability in time-frequency plane is described. Although these factors are not indepdendent, it is shown that they can be studied independently after modeling the interaction between the factors.
Cite as: Kajarekar, S., Malayath, N., Hermansky, H. (1999) Analysis of sources of variability in speech. Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999), 343-346, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-89
@inproceedings{kajarekar99_eurospeech,
author={Sachin Kajarekar and Narendranath Malayath and Hynek Hermansky},
title={{Analysis of sources of variability in speech}},
year=1999,
booktitle={Proc. 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1999)},
pages={343--346},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.1999-89}
}