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Comparison of methods for determining speech voicing based on tests performed on paired consonants and continuous speech

MALUCHA, J. SIGMUND, M.

Originální název

Comparison of methods for determining speech voicing based on tests performed on paired consonants and continuous speech

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Voicing is an important phonetic characteristic of speech. Each phoneme belongs to a group of either voiced or unvoiced sounds. We investigated and compared the performance of five algorithms widely used to estimate speech voicing. All algorithms were implemented in Matlab and tested on both short consonants and continuous speech. Phonetically paired consonants (voiced vs. unvoiced) and parts of read speech from audio books were used in the experiments. The tuned harmonics-to-noise ratio method gave the best results in both situations, i.e. for consonants and continuous speech. Using this method, the overall voicing of Czech, Polish, Hungarian and English was investigated. Hungarian speech showed the highest proportion of voiced parts, approx. 75%. In other languages, the proportion of voiced parts was around 70%.

Klíčová slova

voiced and unvoiced speech, phonetics, statistical voicing characteristics of languages

Autoři

MALUCHA, J.; SIGMUND, M.

Vydáno

5. 11. 2022

Nakladatel

Slovak University of Technology

Místo

Bratislava

ISSN

1339-309X

Periodikum

Journal of Electrical Engineering

Ročník

73

Číslo

5

Stát

Slovenská republika

Strany od

359

Strany do

362

Strany počet

4

URL

http://iris.elf.stuba.sk/JEEEC/data/pdf/5_122-09.pdf

BibTex

@article{BUT181411,
  author="Jan {Malucha} and Milan {Sigmund}",
  title="Comparison of methods for determining speech voicing based on tests performed on paired consonants and continuous speech",
  journal="Journal of Electrical Engineering",
  year="2022",
  volume="73",
  number="5",
  pages="359--362",
  doi="10.2478/jee-2022-0049",
  issn="1339-309X",
  url="http://iris.elf.stuba.sk/JEEEC/data/pdf/5_122-09.pdf"
}