Phonetics and Phonology (eng507)
Topic-130: Analyzing Individual Differences
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| Topic-130: Analyzing Individual Differences Further on individual differences, as an alternate method, a complete range of a speaker’s vowel qualities maybe considered as representative of the speaker’s personal features which, in turn, maybe compared with the formant frequency of each vowel (with the total range of that formant in that speaker’s voice. But this is true that the phoneticians are still working with comparing the acoustic data of one individual with the other and improve further the system of speech recognition. Experts of applied phonetics and computer speech technology are trying to understand the complexity of speech – synthesis systems and improve it. Areas such as intonation and rhythm are being further explored for the purpose. For correct estimates, they are considering working with syntax, pragmatics, rhythmic structure and individual segmental influences together to develop computer programs capable to be used for speech recognition. But it is also true that such topics are the areas of computer engineers but, yes, phoneticians as well as speech therapist and the experts of hearing sciences) can also play an important role in it. Secondly, speech identification is also directly needed by the legal experts for their court proceedings and ‘voice-prints’ are now largely used by lawyers. Spectrograms, although with a limited application at this stage, are potential area for future research studies. Download 1.01 Mb. Share with your friends:
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