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Comparison of methods for determining speech voicing based on tests performed on paired consonants and continuous speech

MALUCHA, J.; SIGMUND, M.

Original Title

Comparison of methods for determining speech voicing based on tests performed on paired consonants and continuous speech

English Title

Comparison of methods for determining speech voicing based on tests performed on paired consonants and continuous speech

Type

WoS Article

Original Abstract

Voicing is an important phonetic characteristic of speech. Each phoneme belongs to a group of either voiced or unvoiced sounds. We investigated and compared the performance of five algorithms widely used to estimate speech voicing. All algorithms were implemented in Matlab and tested on both short consonants and continuous speech. Phonetically paired consonants (voiced vs. unvoiced) and parts of read speech from audio books were used in the experiments. The tuned harmonics-to-noise ratio method gave the best results in both situations, i.e. for consonants and continuous speech. Using this method, the overall voicing of Czech, Polish, Hungarian and English was investigated. Hungarian speech showed the highest proportion of voiced parts, approx. 75%. In other languages, the proportion of voiced parts was around 70%.

English abstract

Voicing is an important phonetic characteristic of speech. Each phoneme belongs to a group of either voiced or unvoiced sounds. We investigated and compared the performance of five algorithms widely used to estimate speech voicing. All algorithms were implemented in Matlab and tested on both short consonants and continuous speech. Phonetically paired consonants (voiced vs. unvoiced) and parts of read speech from audio books were used in the experiments. The tuned harmonics-to-noise ratio method gave the best results in both situations, i.e. for consonants and continuous speech. Using this method, the overall voicing of Czech, Polish, Hungarian and English was investigated. Hungarian speech showed the highest proportion of voiced parts, approx. 75%. In other languages, the proportion of voiced parts was around 70%.

Keywords

voiced and unvoiced speech, phonetics, statistical voicing characteristics of languages

Key words in English

voiced and unvoiced speech, phonetics, statistical voicing characteristics of languages

Authors

MALUCHA, J.; SIGMUND, M.

RIV year

2023

Released

05.11.2022

Publisher

Slovak University of Technology

Location

Bratislava

ISBN

1339-309X

Periodical

Journal of Electrical Engineering-Elektrotechnicky Casopis

Volume

73

Number

5

State

Slovak Republic

Pages from

359

Pages to

362

Pages count

4

URL

http://iris.elf.stuba.sk/JEEEC/data/pdf/5_122-09.pdf

BibTex

@article{BUT181411,
  author="Jan {Malucha} and Milan {Sigmund}",
  title="Comparison of methods for determining speech voicing based on tests performed on paired consonants and continuous speech",
  journal="Journal of Electrical Engineering-Elektrotechnicky Casopis",
  year="2022",
  volume="73",
  number="5",
  pages="359--362",
  doi="10.2478/jee-2022-0049",
  issn="1335-3632",
  url="http://iris.elf.stuba.sk/JEEEC/data/pdf/5_122-09.pdf"
}