SPEAKER NORMALIZATION THROUGH FORMANT|BASED ...

Dogs perceive and spontaneously normalize formant-related ...

Speech sounds vary among speakers owing to differences in body size, age, gender and other idiosyncratic attributes [1,2], and thus effective ...

Auditory Sensitivity to Formant Ratios:Toward an Account of Vowel ...

We conclude that these results present an impetus to reconsider formant ratios as a legitimate mechanistic component in the solution to the problem of speaker ...

Speaker normalization of static and dynamic vowel spectral features

Based on pilot ex- periments, the approach used for the data given in this paper. S. A. Zahorian and A. J. Jagharghi: Speaker normalization. 68. Page 3. was to ...

A New Vowel Normalization for Sociophonetics - ISCA Archive

Several studies have shown that in sociophonetic research. Lobanov's speaker normalization method outperforms other methods for normalizing vowel formants ...

SPEAKER NORMALIZATION PRESERVING REGIONAL ACCENT ...

Speaker normalization procedures and representations. In this study two ways of representing formant data will be compared: the hertz scale and the Bark ...

Vowel Normalization in R - Marissa Barlaz, PhD

Speaker intrinsic and formant extrinsic methods use multiple formants in order to calculate normalized values. The most common one is the Bark-distance model.

Vowel Normalization Suite | About NORM - LingTools @ UO

NORM is a web-based software package designed to aid sociophoneticians, phoneticians, and sociolinguists in normalizing and plotting their vowel formant data. ( ...

Comparing Vowel Formant Normalization Methods - Semantic Scholar

Results from a large-scale comparative study of vowel formant normalization methods are presented, where effectiveness of methods was evaluated by their ...

Vowel and formant representation in the human auditory speech ...

Taken together, these analyses show that formant normalization for speaker voice characteristics is a general feature of formant-encoding neural ...

Normalization of nonlinearly time-dynamic vowels - AIP Publishing

The first concerns the normalization of differences between individual speakers, of which we have 160 in our dataset. The second new criterion ...

Nonuniform speaker normalization using affine transformation ...

In this paper, a well-motivated nonuniform speaker normalization model that affinely relates the formant frequencies of speakers enunciating the same sound ...

Model-based speaker normalization methods for speech recognition ...

A speaker normalization method using a speech generation model is proposed in order to achieve high-performance speaker adaptation with a small amount of ...

Speaker Normalization in Speech Perception - Wiley Online Library

This chapter reviews some practical vowel-normalization methods and discusses the perceptual processes that listeners may use to accomplish speech recognition.

Vocal Tract Length Normalization - UC Berkeley

In addition, it is remarkable that the state of the art in vowel formant normalization is ... (2005) Speaker Normalization in speech perception. In Pisoni, D.B. & ...

Speaker Normalization in Speech Perception | Request PDF

Voice processing systems that faithfully and continually represent changes in the formants and formant spacing of an unfamiliar talker, may be ...

a fast method of speaker normalisation using formant estimation

The normalisation is ap- plied to a phoneme recognition task using the TIMIT database and results show a useful improvement over an un-normalised speaker ...

Speaker-normalized vowel representations in the human auditory ...

Such normalization involved the rescaling of acoustic-phonetic representations of speech, demonstrating a form of recoding before the signal is ...

A comparison of three speaker-intrinsic vowel formant frequency ...

This article evaluates a speaker-intrinsic vowel formant frequency normalization algorithm initially proposed in Watt & Fabricius (2002).

Speech perception without speaker normalization: an exemplar

For example, in Gerstman's (1968) range normalization, formant values are expressed relative to the speaker's range of produced formants. So, if a vowel has.

University of Alberta Cognitively-Active Speaker Normalization ...

... formant frequencies produced by a voice (i.e., formant- frequency scaling). Results indicate that listeners are able to identify voices that differ on the ...