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When recognizing a voice we attend to particular features of the person’s speech and voice. Through voice imitation it is possible to investigate which aspects of the human voice need to be altered to successfully mislead the listener. This suggests that voice and speech imitation can be exploited as a methodological tool to find out which features a voice impersonator picks out in the target voice and which features in the human voice are not changed, thereby making it possible to identify the impersonator instead of the target voice. This article examines whether three impersonators, two professional and one amateur, selected the same features and speaker characteristics when imitating the same target speakers and whether they achieved similar degrees of success. The acoustic-auditory results give an insight into how difficult it is to focus on only one or two features when trying to identify one speaker from his voice.
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Zetterholm, E. (2007). Detection of Speaker Characteristics Using Voice Imitation. In: Müller, C. (eds) Speaker Classification II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4441. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74122-0_16
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