Title :
Mandarin Accent Analysis Based on Formant Frequencies
Author :
Kun Liu ; Zhiwei Shuang ; Yong Qin ; Jianping Zhang ; Yonghong Yan
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Acousti., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Accent analysis for Mandarin Chinese based on formant frequencies is presented in this paper. Five monophthongs [a, o, e, i, u] of 430 speakers across eight accents were analyzed with univariance analysis of variance (UNIANOVA). The results show that accent has significant influence on the second formant frequency of monophthongs [o, i, u] and has no obvious influence on the formant frequencies of monophthong [a]. In addition, accent has no obvious influence on the first and the third formant frequencies of all five monophthongs.
Keywords :
linguistics; speech processing; Mandarin Chinese; Mandarin accent analysis; formant frequencies; monophthongs; univariance analysis of variance; Acoustics; Analysis of variance; Automatic speech recognition; Frequency; Hidden Markov models; Loudspeakers; Natural languages; Speech analysis; Support vector machine classification; Support vector machines; Accent; UNIANOVA; formant;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2007. ICASSP 2007. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0727-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366993
