Nine voices, one artist : linguistic and acoustic analysis
Voice impersonators possess a flexible voice and thus can change their voice identity. They are able to imitate various people and characters which differ in age, gender, accent and voice quality. State of the art electronic voice conversion systems are not able to successfully mimic their human cou...
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| author | Marziliano, Pina German, James Sneed Amin, Talal B. |
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| description | Voice impersonators possess a flexible voice and thus can change their voice identity. They are able to imitate various people and characters which differ in age, gender, accent and voice quality. State of the art electronic voice conversion systems are not able to successfully mimic their human counterparts as they lack naturalness. To understand why human impersonators are successful and what parameters they rely on to change their voice, we analyze nine voices produced by a professional voice impersonator. We compute different acoustical measures and discuss their linguistic implications. The acoustical measures include pitch, speech rate and formant frequencies. Our results show that differences in the voice identity features such as age and gender are reflected in the acoustic parameters of the impersonations. The analysis is distinguished from previous studies on impersonators in giving full consideration to voice identity features. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1036162020-03-07T12:10:37Z Nine voices, one artist : linguistic and acoustic analysis Marziliano, Pina German, James Sneed Amin, Talal B. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering School of Humanities and Social Sciences IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2012 : Melbourne, Australia) DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics Voice impersonators possess a flexible voice and thus can change their voice identity. They are able to imitate various people and characters which differ in age, gender, accent and voice quality. State of the art electronic voice conversion systems are not able to successfully mimic their human counterparts as they lack naturalness. To understand why human impersonators are successful and what parameters they rely on to change their voice, we analyze nine voices produced by a professional voice impersonator. We compute different acoustical measures and discuss their linguistic implications. The acoustical measures include pitch, speech rate and formant frequencies. Our results show that differences in the voice identity features such as age and gender are reflected in the acoustic parameters of the impersonations. The analysis is distinguished from previous studies on impersonators in giving full consideration to voice identity features. Accepted version 2014-04-29T01:05:09Z 2019-12-06T21:16:21Z 2014-04-29T01:05:09Z 2019-12-06T21:16:21Z 2012 2012 Conference Paper Amin, T. B., Marziliano, P., & German, J. S. (2012). Nine Voices, One Artist: Linguistic and Acoustic Analysis. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 450 - 454. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103616 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19267 10.1109/ICME.2012.142 170782 en © 2012 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICME.2012.142]. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics Marziliano, Pina German, James Sneed Amin, Talal B. Nine voices, one artist : linguistic and acoustic analysis |
| title | Nine voices, one artist : linguistic and acoustic analysis |
| title_full | Nine voices, one artist : linguistic and acoustic analysis |
| title_fullStr | Nine voices, one artist : linguistic and acoustic analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nine voices, one artist : linguistic and acoustic analysis |
| title_short | Nine voices, one artist : linguistic and acoustic analysis |
| title_sort | nine voices one artist linguistic and acoustic analysis |
| topic | DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103616 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19267 |
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