An Evaluation of Formant Tracking methods on an Arabic Database

Imen Jemaa 1 Oussama Rekhis 1 Kais Ouni 1 Yves Laprie 2
1 ENIT - Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis
2 PAROLE - Analysis, perception and recognition of speech
INRIA Lorraine, LORIA - Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications
Abstract : In this paper we present a formant database of Arabic used to evaluate our new automatic formant tracking algorithm based on Fourier ridges detection. In this method we have introduced a continuity constraint based on the computation of centres of gravity for a set of formant candidates. This leads to connect a frame of speech to its neighbours and thus improves the robustness of tracking. The formant trajectories obtained by the algorithm proposed are compared to those of the hand edited formant database and those given by Praat with LPC data.
Keywords : arabic database phonetic annotation formant labeling and formant tracking
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Imen Jemaa, Oussama Rekhis, Kais Ouni, Yves Laprie. An Evaluation of Formant Tracking methods on an Arabic Database. 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association - INTERSPEECH 2009, Sep 2009, Brighton, United Kingdom. ⟨inria-00433057⟩

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