Re: what's the difference between the voice of two people?

[Siping Tao <siping.tao@xxxxxxx>]

Etienne,

Thank you very much! I will read these publications.

When using voip in office, sometimes other people in the office are talking but with small volume, what I want to do is suppressing this unwanted voice. I think the first step is to identify some features that can distinguish them.

Thanks,
Siping

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Etienne Gaudrain <e.p.c.gaudrain@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Siping,

There's many cues. We studied two obvious that are directly related to the anatomy of the speaker: glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length. There's many papers on the topic from Patterson's lab (http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/groups/cnbh/research/publications/). One that may directly answer your question is:

Gaudrain, Etienne, S Li, VS Ban, and RD Patterson. “The Role of Glottal Pulse Rate and Vocal Tract Length in the Perception of Speaker Identity.” Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 1-5 (2009): 152–155.

Regards,

-Etienne

On 14/11/2012 09:05, Siping Tao wrote:

hi experts,

l am curious of what's the key feature that human can identify who is talking, what's the difference between the voice signal of different speakers? pitch?

I have little knowledge about that, any papers about  this topic is really appreciated!

Thanks,
Siping

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