The Phonetic Bases of Speaker Recognition

How reliably can individuals be recognised by their voices? This question has recently been the subject of much debate among speech researchers and forensic scientists and the controversial and crucial nature of that debate has stimulated a wide range of empirical research. In this book Dr Nolan argues convincingly that both the design and interpretation of many of these experiments are vitiated by the lack of a comprehensive model of variability between speakers and within the speech of an individual. This volume clearly demonstrates that any valid theory of speaker recognition must integrate the approaches of a number of disciplines and it is itself an important step towards that integration. It will be of interest to phoneticians and to speech scientists, including those with an engineering background and also to forensic scientists specialising in this area.

ISBN 0521108276   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780521108270 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 350 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series title Cambridge Studies in Speech Science & Communication Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780521244862 Publication date 09 Apr 2009   Height (mm) 229 DEWEY 414   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY edition DC22   Spine width (mm) 13 Pages 232   Academic level Postgraduate

List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Perspectives on speaker recognition; 2. The bases of between-speaker differences; 3. Short term parameters: segments and co-articulation; 4. Long term quality; 5. Conclusions; References; Index.

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