Subject: Re: what's the difference between the voice of two people? From: Etienne Gaudrain <e.p.c.gaudrain@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:25:42 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010404080600030304070509 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > -- Etienne Gaudrain, PhD UMCG, Afdeling KNO BB20 PO Box 30.001 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands Room P3.236 Phone +31 5036 13290 Skype egaudrain Note: emails to this address are limited to 10 MB. To send larger attachments, please use egaudrain.cam@xxxxxxxx --------------010404080600030304070509 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Siping,<br> <br> 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 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/groups/cnbh/research/publications/">http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/groups/cnbh/research/publications/</a>). One that may directly answer your question is:<br> <br> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <div class="csl-bib-body" style="line-height: 1.35; padding-left: 2em; text-indent:-2em;"> <div class="csl-entry">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.” <i>Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association</i> 1-5 (2009): 152–155.</div> <span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The%20role%20of%20glottal%20pulse%20rate%20and%20vocal%20tract%20length%20in%20the%20perception%20of%20speaker%20identity&rft.jtitle=Interspeech%202009%3A%2010th%20Annual%20Conference%20of%20the%20International%20Speech%20Communication%20Association&rft.stitle=Interspeech%202009&rft.volume=1-5&rft.aufirst=Etienne&rft.aulast=Gaudrain&rft.au=Etienne%20Gaudrain&rft.au=S%20Li&rft.au=VS%20Ban&rft.au=RD%20Patterson&rft.date=2009&rft.pages=152-155&rft.spage=152&rft.epage=155"></span></div> <br> Regards,<br> -Etienne<br> <br> <br> <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/11/2012 09:05, Siping Tao wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:14758_1352882235_50A3583B_14758_371_4_CAKxprmJ4OW8Ru25vG8oSr3bo5Z13SVDGz66atzBNHrN0-=ajEQ@xxxxxxxx" type="cite"> <p dir="ltr">hi experts, </p> <p dir="ltr">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?</p> <p dir="ltr">I have little knowledge about that, any papers about this topic is really appreciated!</p> <p dir="ltr">Thanks,<br> Siping</p> </blockquote> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Etienne Gaudrain, PhD UMCG, Afdeling KNO BB20 PO Box 30.001 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands Room P3.236 Phone +31 5036 13290 Skype egaudrain Note: emails to this address are limited to 10 MB. To send larger attachments, please use <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:egaudrain.cam@xxxxxxxx">egaudrain.cam@xxxxxxxx</a>.</pre> </body> </html> --------------010404080600030304070509--