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Quantifying Fundamental Frequency Modulation as a Function of Language, Speaking Style and Speaker
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Linguistics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6844-4834
2019 (English)In: Interspeech 2019, Graz: The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2019Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this study, we outline a methodology to quantify the degree of similarity between pairs of f0 distributions based on the Anderson-Darling measure that underlies its namesake goodness-of-fit test. The procedure emphasizes differences due to more fine-grained f0 modulations rather than differences in measures of central tendency, such as the mean and median. In order to assess the procedure’s usefulness for speaker comparison, we applied it to a multilingual corpus in which participants contributed speech delivered in three speaking styles. The similarity measure was calculated separately as function of speaking style and speaker. Between-speaker variability (different speakers, same style) in distribution similarity varied significantly between styles — spontaneous interview shows greater variability than read sentences and word list in five languages (English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish); in Estonian and German, read sentences yield more variability. Within-speaker variability (same speaker, different styles) levels are lower than between-speaker in the style that exhibit the greatest variability. The results point to the potential use of the proposed methodology as a way to identify possible idiosyncratic traits in f0 distributions. Also, they further demonstrate the effect of speaking styles on intonation patterns.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Graz: The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2019.
Keywords [en]
fundamental frequency, speaking style, cross- language comparison
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Research subject
Phonetics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-195743DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2857OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-195743DiVA, id: diva2:1588245
Conference
Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria, September 15-19, 2019
Funder
The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), 1915339
Note

This work was jointly funded by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) grant 88881.155645/2017-01 as part of the STINT/CAPES research exchange agreement.

Available from: 2021-08-26 Created: 2021-08-26 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved

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