AUC Philologica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica) is an academic journal published by Charles University. It publishes scholarly articles in a large number of disciplines (English, German, Greek and Latin, Oriental, Romance and Slavonic studies, as well as in phonetics and translation studies), both on linguistic and on literary and cultural topics. Apart from articles it publishes reviews of new academic books or special issues of academic journals.
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AUC PHILOLOGICA, Vol 2014 No 1 (2014), 43–54
The Efficiency of Different Formant Parameters for Speaker Discrimination
Jitka Vaňková
published online: 28. 12. 2014
abstract
This study examines the efficiency of different ways of capturing vowel formants for speaker discrimination. It compares the speaker-discriminating potential of static (F1–F4) and dynamic formant values (F1–F3), and assesses the usefulness of long-term formant distribution (LTF of F1–F4) for discriminating between 16 female speakers of Czech. The results show that dynamic parameters overall perform slightly better than static ones; the most useful parameter of all is static F4. The study found no systematic differences in discriminability of speakers with regards to the position of word stress, i.e. speaker-specific information can be present in stressed as well as unstressed syllables. LTF seems to be a promising complement to the segment-based methods as it provides an overall picture of the behaviour of each formant. The distribution of all four formants (especially F4) has been shown to have some speaker-discriminating potential, which has been assessed both visually and statistically.
keywords: vowel formants; static and dynamic values; long-term formant distribution; speaker identification; forensic phonetics
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