Talker Identification Based on Phonetic Information

Accounts of the identification of words and talkers commonly rely on different acoustic properties. To identify a word, a perceiver discards acoustic aspects of an utterance that are talker specific, forming an abstract representation of the linguistic message with which to probe a mental lexicon. T...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 1997-06, Vol.23 (3), p.651-666
Main Authors: Remez, Robert E, Fellowes, Jennifer M, Rubin, Philip E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustics
Adult
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Familiarity
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Identification
Information
Language
Male
Middle Aged
Phonetics
Production and perception of spoken language
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Speakers
Speech
Speech Acoustics
Speech Characteristics
Speech Perception
Synthetic Speech
Verbal Behavior
Vocabulary
Voice
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Summary:Accounts of the identification of words and talkers commonly rely on different acoustic properties. To identify a word, a perceiver discards acoustic aspects of an utterance that are talker specific, forming an abstract representation of the linguistic message with which to probe a mental lexicon. To identify a talker, a perceiver discards acoustic aspects of an utterance specific to particular phonemes, creating a representation of voice quality with which to search for familiar talkers in long-term memory. In 3 experiments, sinewave replicas of natural speech sampled from 10 talkers eliminated natural voice quality while preserving idiosyncratic phonetic variation. Listeners identified the sinewave talkers without recourse to acoustic attributes of natural voice quality. This finding supports a revised description of speech perception in which the phonetic properties of utterances serve to identify both words and talkers.
ISSN:0096-1523
1939-1277
DOI:10.1037/0096-1523.23.3.651