Frantz Clermont


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2023

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The sub-band cepstrum as a tool for local spectral analysis in forensic voice comparison
Shunichi Ishihara | Frantz Clermont
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association

This paper exploits band-limited cepstral coefficients (BLCCs) in forensic voice comparison (FVC), with the primary aim of locating speaker-sensitive spectral regions. BLCCs are sub-band cepstral coefficients (CCs) which are easily obtained by a linear transformation of full-band CCs. The transformation gives the flexibility of selecting any sub-band region without the recurrent cost of spectral analyses. Using multi-band BLCCs obtained by sliding a 600-Hz sub-band every 400 Hz across the full [0-5kHz] range, FVC experiments were attempted using citation recordings of the 5 Japanese vowels from 297 adult-male, native speakers. The FVC results give locations and ranges for the most speaker-sensitive sub-bands, and show that combining 3-4 of these yields comparable FVC performance with full-band CCs. Owing to their ability to easily extract locally-encoded speaker information from full-band CCs, it can be conjectured that BLCCs have a significant role to play in the search for meaningful interpretations of the numerical outcome of forensic analyses.