Estimation of voice-onset time in continuous speech using temporal measures

Prathosh, AP and Ramakrishnan, AG and Ananthapadmanabha, TV (2014) Estimation of voice-onset time in continuous speech using temporal measures. In: JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 136 (2). EL122-EL128.

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Abstract

This paper proposes an automatic acoustic-phonetic method for estimating voice-onset time of stops. This method requires neither transcription of the utterance nor training of a classifier. It makes use of the plosion index for the automatic detection of burst onsets of stops. Having detected the burst onset, the onset of the voicing following the burst is detected using the epochal information and a temporal measure named the maximum weighted inner product. For validation, several experiments are carried out on the entire TIMIT database and two of the CMU Arctic corpora. The performance of the proposed method compares well with three state-of-the-art techniques. (C) 2014 Acoustical Society of America

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Publisher:	ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS,
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS, STE 1 NO 1, 2 HUNTINGTON QUADRANGLE, MELVILLE, NY 11747-4502 USA.
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Engineering
Date Deposited:	18 Oct 2014 06:54
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2014 06:54
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/50039

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