Gender Classification in Children Based on Speech Characteristics: Using Fundamental and Formant Frequencies of Malay Vowels

• Main Authors: Zourmand, Alireza, Ting, Hua Nong, Mirhassani, Seyed Mostafa
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2013
• Subjects: R Medicine; TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/23064/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2012.12.006

Speech is one of the prevalent communication mediums for humans. Identifying the gender of a child speaker based on his/her speech is crucial in telecommunication and speech therapy. This article investigates the use of fundamental and formant frequencies from sustained vowel phonation to distinguis...