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Some Acoustic Cues to Human and Machine Estimation of Speaker Age

Schötz, Susanne LU orcid (2004) Fonetik 2004 p.40-43
Abstract
Two experiments were carried out in order to learn more about the relation between the various acoustic cues to speaker age. The first included listening tests with resynthesized stimuli, and the second comprised automatic estimation of age using the CART (Classification And Regression Trees) technique. In the first experiment, results indicate that human listeners seem to rely more on spectral cues than on F0 and duration when judging age. The results of the second experiment seem to agree with the first, as formant frequencies outperformed the other

features in the CART tests. The acoustics and perception of speaker age will be studied further using a larger material and additional methods.
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Proc. of Fonetik 2004
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40 - 43
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Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
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Fonetik 2004
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Stockholm, Sweden
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2004-05-24 - 2004-05-28
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SweDia 2000
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English
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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)
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  author       = {{Schötz, Susanne}},
  booktitle    = {{Proc. of Fonetik 2004}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{40--43}},
  publisher    = {{Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University}},
  title        = {{Some Acoustic Cues to Human and Machine Estimation of Speaker Age}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/5971045/1624494.pdf}},
  year         = {{2004}},
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