LINGUIST List 10.1526

Thu Oct 14 1999

Sum: Voiceprints

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  • Annie L. Clark, Voiceprints

    Message 1: Voiceprints

     Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:41:48 -0400
    From: Annie L. Clark <aclarklyrix.com>
    Subject: Voiceprints


    Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about voiceprints as speaker identification (LINGUIST List 10.1459).

    The following responses produced many helpful leads:

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    You might want to check out pages 211-214 of Ladefoged's _A Course in Phonetics_, Third Edition (Harcourt Brace, 1993).

    George F. Aubin _____________________________________________

    If you're interested in this area, there are a few classic articles you should take a look at (below). I'm sure there is considerable more recent stuff that i don't know about, but the general issues raised in these articles still hold.

    Good luck,

    laura l. koenig --------------------------

    Bolt, R. H., Cooper, F. S., David, E. E., Jr., Denes, P. B., Pickett, J. M., & Stevens, K. N. (1969). Identification of a speaker by speech spectrograms. Science, 166, 338-343.

    Bolt, R. H., Cooper, F. S., David, E. E., Jr., Denes, P. B., Pickett, J. M., & Stevens, K. N. (1970). Speaker identification by speech spectrograms: A scientist's view of its reliability for legal purposes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 47, 597-612.

    Bolt, R. H., Cooper, F. S., David, E. E., Jr., Denes, P. B., Pickett, J. M., & Stevens, K. N. (1973). Speaker identification by speech spectrograms: Some further observations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 54, 531-534.

    Pap�un, G. J., & Ladefoged, P. (1976). Two 'voiceprint' cases. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 55, 463. _____________________________________________

    See Harry Hollien's book The Acoustics of Crime. Hollien is emeritus at U. Florida in Gainesville, but still goes to the office as of last fall. The book is 1990, so that there is more recent material, to which Hollien might guide you. See also the Journal of the Forensic Sciences and related lit. Sincerely -

    Donald S. Cooper, Ph. D. Univ.of South Carolina _____________________________________________

    If what you mean is to use voice to identify a person, as in finger print, then you can search the web for "speaker identification". It is a thriving field in speech technologies having a lot of shared methodologies with ASR, Automatic Speech Recognition. Speech conference such as ICSLP, Eurospeech, ICASSP, each have sections on this topic.

    Best,

    Chilin Shih Language Modeling Research Department Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies _____________________________________________

    We don't talk about individual speaker identification, but we've got a teaching website devoted to discerning linguistic information out of sonagrams. Check out the website listed in my sig if you are interested.

    +--------------- Robert Hagiwara, Ph.D. ---------------+ | Lecturer, Dept. of Linguistics | | University of Washington | +---- http://depts.washington.edu/phonlab/mystery/ ----+



    Thanks again! Annie L. Clark Ferreira Linguistics Specialist Lyrix Systems, Inc. (978) 851-5300