Zourmand, Alireza and Ting, Hua Nong and Mirhassani, Seyed Mostafa (2013) Gender Classification in Children Based on Speech Characteristics: Using Fundamental and Formant Frequencies of Malay Vowels. Journal of Voice, 27 (2). pp. 201-209. ISSN 0892-1997, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2012.12.006.
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Speech is one of the prevalent communication mediums for humans. Identifying the gender of a child speaker based on his/her speech is crucial in telecommunication and speech therapy. This article investigates the use of fundamental and formant frequencies from sustained vowel phonation to distinguish the gender of Malay children aged between 7 and 12 years. The Euclidean minimum distance and multilayer perceptron were used to classify the gender of 360 Malay children based on different combinations of fundamental and formant frequencies (F0, F1, F2, and F 3). The Euclidean minimum distance with normalized frequency data achieved a classification accuracy of 79.44%, which was higher than that of the nonnormalized frequency data. Age-dependent modeling was used to improve the accuracy of gender classification. The Euclidean distance method obtained 84.17% based on the optimal classification accuracy for all age groups. The accuracy was further increased to 99.81% using multilayer perceptron based on mel-frequency cepstral coefficients. © 2013 The Voice Foundation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Formant frequencies; Fundamental frequency; Sustained vowels; Gender classification; Malay language; Children; Neural networks; Euclidean distance; Hidden Markov models |
| Subjects: | R Medicine T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2019 08:17 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2019 08:17 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/23064 |
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