The Study Of Cross-linguistic Speaker Identification By The Pronunciation Of English Stop And Fricative Consonants

Human beings have the talent to identify people by voice only.Speaker identification extracts a person's characteristics from his or her speech in which it contains many different individual features to identify a person.Present study is concerned with the effects of the onset English stop consonants and fricative consonants to explore cross-linguistic speaker specific property on speaker identification.Utterances are collected from three representative speakers from China,Dutch and America respectively.According to the acoustic properties of English stops and fricatives,we classify and discuss the identification results.We find that stops have small effect on speaker identification compared with fricatives.The voicing characteristic and energy concentration distributed at low frequency range are the cues to speaker identification.