Most paralinguistic analysis tasks are lacking agreed-upon evaluation procedures and comparability, in contrast to more `traditional' disciplines in speech analysis. The INTE...
This paper describes Brno University of Technology (BUT) system for the Interspeech 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge. Our submitted systems for the Age- and Gender-Sub-Challenges emp...
This paper presents a novel automatic speaker age and gender identification approach which combines five different methods at the acoustic level to improve the baseline performanc...
In light of the serious problems with both illiteracy and information access in the developing world, there is a widespread belief that speech technology can play a significant ro...
Etienne Barnard, Johan Schalkwyk, Charl Johannes v...
In this paper, we demonstrate the trichotomic realization of voiced velars in Japanese, challenging the traditional plosive/nasal dichotomy of velar allophones, and examine the di...