Acoustic Discrimination between Difficult Sound Pairs in a Single Speaker,

Abstract

Various discrimination algorithms were applied to samples of spectral energies in five 1-kHz bands of 25.6 ms frames of the difficult sound pair (f) - theta produced by a single speaker, with scores ranging between 60 and 89 percent, depending on whether single or multiple frames were used to identify segments and on whether frames were drawn from full-length segments or from middle thirds of segments. A multivariate statistical description permits probability estimates to be attached to individual recognition decisions. Aside from its use in assisting discrimination, the statistical description also characterizes the sounds in terms of their mean behavior and their sources of variability.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA027918

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  • David J. Broad

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustics
  • Algorithms
  • Discrimination
  • Mathematics
  • Probability
  • Recognition
  • Signal Processing

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  • Computer Vision.
  • Statistical inference.