Biometrical Speaker Description From Vocal Cord Parameterization

Author

Gómez, P. ; Rodellar, V. ; Alvarez, A. ; Lázaro, J.C. ; Murphy, K. ; Díaz, F. ; Fernández, R.

Author_Institution

Fac. de Inf., Univ. Politecnica de Madrid

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

14-19 May 2006

Abstract

The parameterization of vocal cord dynamics may be useful in different fields of voice processing, as in speech synthesis, voice pathology detection, or speaker identification, among others. A technique to determine biomechanical cord parameters is presented to produce estimates of mass, stiffness and losses from the body and cover structures of the vocal cords. Results from a database of normophonic subjects are in good agreement with values used in cord modelling. This technique provides biometrical descriptors of speakers with use in different fields of application

Keywords

parameter estimation; speaker recognition; speech synthesis; biomechanical cord parameters; biometrical speaker description; normophonic subjects; speaker identification; speech synthesis; vocal cord parameterization; voice pathology detection; voice processing; Biomechanics; Contamination; Databases; Electronic mail; Muscles; Parameter estimation; Pathology; Speech synthesis; Springs; Stress;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0469-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660523

Filename

1660523