On using voice source measures in automatic gender classification of children's speech

Acoustic characteristics of speech signals differ with gender due to physiological differences of the glottis and the vocal tract. Previous research [1] showed that adding the voice-source related measures H 1 -H 2 and H 1 -A 3 improved gender classification accuracy compared to using only the fundamental frequency (F0) and formant frequencies. H i refers to the i

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: INTERSPEECH
• Authors: Gang Chen, Xue Feng, Yen-Liang Shue, Abeer Alwan
• Keywords: Gender Classification, Gender Classification Accuracy, INTERSPEECH 2010, Signal Processing, Spectral Harmonic Magnitude