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Subglottal Resonances: Coupling Effects and Application to Automatic Speaker Identification

Abstract

Subglottal resonances (SGRs) have been extensively studied in recent years due to their demonstrated advantages in different applications, such as speaker height estimation and speaker normalization in automatic speech recognition. In the interest of studying this area in speech processing, the current study does not only extend the previously explored oral-subglottal coupling effects, but also investigates the application of speaker identification with SGRs. By using newly-developed tools, a more generalized analysis of the coupling effect is conducted with a larger database compared to previous studies. In order to demonstrate the importance of SGRs, exploratory speaker identification experiments with SGR features from both "ground truth" measurements and statistical based estimation techniques are carried out. The results show the effectiveness of SGR features with preliminary analysis, and several suggestions are made to motivate further study.

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