Acoustic Correlates of the Voice Qualifiers: A Survey

10/29/2020
by   Shahan Ali Memon, et al.
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Our voices are as distinctive as our faces and fingerprints. There is a spectrum of non-disjoint traits that make our voices unique and identifiable, such as the fundamental frequency, the intensity, and most interestingly the quality of the speech. Voice quality refers to the characteristic features of an individual's voice. Previous research has from time-to-time proven the ubiquity of voice quality in making different paralinguistic inferences. These inferences range from identifying personality traits, to health conditions and beyond. In this manuscript, we first map the paralinguistic voice qualifiers to their acoustic correlates in the light of the previous research and literature. We also determine the openSMILE correlates one could possibly use to measure those correlates. In the second part, we give a set of example paralinguistic inferences that can be made using different acoustic and perceptual voice quality features.

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