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It is known that the accuracy of perceptual speaker identification is dependent on the stimulus contents presented to the subjects. Two experiments were conducted in order to find out the effective sounds and to investigate the effects of the syllable structures on familiar speaker identification. The results showed that the nasal sounds were effective for identifying the speakers both in onset and coda positions, and coronal sounds were more effective than labial counterparts. The onset consonants were found to be important, and the identification accuracy was degraded in onsetless structures.
This work was originally presented at the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Interspeech 2005 (Experiment 1) and at the International Workshop on Frontiers in Speech and Hearing Research 2006 (Experiment 2). For details see references [23] and [24].
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Amino, K., Arai, T., Sugawara, T. (2007). Effects of the Phonological Contents on Perceptual Speaker Identification. 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_8
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