Extending automatic vowel formant extraction to New Englishes
| Autor: | Philipp Meer, José Alejandro Matute Flores, Thorsten Brato |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Linguistics and Language Formant Computer science Speech recognition Vowel 05 social sciences Bayesian probability 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Language and Linguistics |
| Zdroj: | English World-Wide. 42:54-84 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9730 0172-8865 |
| Popis: | While different automated procedures for vowel formant prediction have recently been proposed, it is unclear how reliably these methods perform in the phonetic study of vowels in New Englishes and how such approaches could be applied to specific varieties. This paper compares different automatic methods for vowel formant prediction in New Englishes, using manual measurements of Trinidadian English as a baseline. The results show that all methods perform significantly better than default formant parameters often used in speech analysis packages, and that a Bayesian formant tracker calibrated with American (US-FAVE) and Trinidadian English (TRINI-FAVE) generally provides better results than an automatic procedure that optimizes formant ceilings on a vowel- and speaker-specific level. TRINI-FAVE measures vowels characteristic of Trinidadian English most accurately. Phonetic studies of vowels in New Englishes can benefit from these methods. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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