Speaker voice comparison in Thai using Euclidian distance: a case study of temporal feature
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The present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of temporal features in speaker voice comparison in Thai using Euclidean distance. The assumption is that the distance of parameter values from temporal features from the same speakers is smaller than that of different speakers. Three parameters were used, i.e., ∆C, ∆V and %V. Acoustic data were obtained by interviewing ten participants. All data were connected speech. The result revealed that distances obtained from the same speakers were 0.005 - 0.063 while those from different speakers were 0.402 - 8.456. The result supported the assumption and revealed that temporal features were effective in speaker voice comparison in Thai.
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