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Impact of duration on F1/F2 formant values of oral vowels: an automatic analysis of large broadcast news corpora in French and German

Year: 2005

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Formant values of oral vowels are automatically measured in a total of 50000 segments from four hours of journalistic broadcast speech in French and German. After automatic segmentation using the LIMSI speech alignment system, formant values are automatically extracted using PRAAT. Vowels with unlikely formant values are discarded (4%). The measured values are exposed with respect to segment duration and language identity. The gap between the measured mean Fi values and reference Fi values is inversely proportional to vowel duration: a tendency to reduction for vowels of short duration clearly emerges for both languages. These results are briefly discussed in terms of centralisation and coarticulation.

Source: Interspeech (USB)

DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2005-753

Authors: Cédric Gendrot, Martine Adda-Decker

Institutions: Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W251199747

FWCI: 5.957

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