Quantifying spectral characteristics of fricatives

Author

Shadle, Christine H. ; Mair, SheiIa J.

Author_Institution

ATR Human Inf. Process. Res. Labs., Kyoto, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Oct 1996

Firstpage

1521

Abstract

In a search for spectral parameters that can be used to distinguish and to model fricatives, spectral moments, dynamic amplitude, and slope above maximum amplitude were computed for a fricative corpus including sustained fricatives at different effort levels, and fricatives in vowel context. Moments varied significantly by frequency range used in computation. M3 appeared to vary the least across fricative, contrasting with Forrest et al.´s 1988 study. Dynamic amplitude separated sibilants and non-sibilants, as predicted; slope above the maximum amplitude varied significantly with effort level

Keywords

spectral analysis; speech processing; computation; dynamic amplitude; effort levels; frequency range; fricative corpus; fricatives; nonsibilants; sibilants; slope; spectral characteristic quantification; spectral moments; spectral parameter search; sustained fricatives; vowel context; Computer science; Context modeling; Frequency measurement; Humans; Information processing; Laboratories; Loudspeakers; Noise shaping; Shape measurement; Spectral shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3555-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607906

Filename

607906