Automatic Detection of Retroflex Approximants in a Continuous Tamil Speech

Phonetic feature extraction is used in many types of speech applications. In this paper, we propose an approach for automatic detection of retroflex approximant in a Tamil continuous speech using sonorant regions and formant structure of speech. Retroflex approximant is one of the distinctive phonet...

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Veröffentlicht in:Circuits, systems, and signal processing systems, and signal processing, 2018-07, Vol.37 (7), p.2837-2851
Hauptverfasser: Thirumuru, Ramakrishna, Vuppala, Anil Kumar
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Phonetic feature extraction is used in many types of speech applications. In this paper, we propose an approach for automatic detection of retroflex approximant in a Tamil continuous speech using sonorant regions and formant structure of speech. Retroflex approximant is one of the distinctive phonetic features of Tamil speech. It occurs in V_V and V_ contexts. In the proposed approach, slopes of the formant trajectories and spectral dynamics of F2 and F3 in the region of retroflex approximant are considered as acoustic cues for detecting them in continuous speech. In this work, numerator of the group delay function-based formant extraction method is used to track formant trajectories. Based on experimental results, formants extracted using this approach produced better evidence compared to state-of-the-art formant extraction techniques for retroflex approximant detection.
ISSN:0278-081X
1531-5878
DOI:10.1007/s00034-017-0689-0