A corpus-based study of elderly and young speakers of European Portuguese: acoustic correlates and their impact on speech recognition performance

Pellegrini, Thomas; Hämäläinen, Annika; Boula de Mareüil, Philippe; Tjalve, Michael; Trancoso, Isabel; Candeias, Sara; Sales Dias, Miguel; Braga, Daniela

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2013-241

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A corpus-based study of elderly and young speakers of European Portuguese: acoustic correlates and their impact on speech recognition performance

Published • Aug 25, 2013

Authors:

Thomas Pellegrini

Annika Hämäläinen

Philippe Boula de Mareüil

Abstract

This paper presents a study of European Portuguese elderly speech, in which the acoustic characteristics of two groups of elderly speakers (aged 60-75 and over 75) are compared with those of young adult speakers (aged 19-30). The correlation between age and a set of 14 acoustic features was investig...

Subject

European Portuguese

Portuguese

Computer science

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