A Cautionary Tale For Phonetic Analysis: The Variability of Speech Between and Within Recording Sessions

Sula Ross; Katherine Earnshaw; Erica Gold

A Cautionary Tale For Phonetic Analysis: The Variability of Speech Between and Within Recording Sessions

Sula Ross, Katherine Earnshaw, Erica Gold

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Abstract

This paper investigates within and between session variability using a subset of 60 British English male speakers from the WYRED project. Three separate speaking tasks were compared using extracted i- vector PLDA scores within iVOCALISE. Different speaker pairs from contemporaneous (within-session) recordings and non-contemporaneous (between- session) recordings were tested. A within-session, between-task comparison was also performed in order to consider variation in speech style in addition to non-contemporaneity. EER and Cllr values indicate that non-contemporaneity is not the only factor which needs to be taken into account when conducting phonetic analysis or evaluating speaker comparison systems, as speech style also seems to play an important role. Further analysis supports the requirement for (forensic/socio-) phoneticians to sample data from the entirety of a recording, especially if the nature of the speech elicitation may change during the task, as the degree of variability is dependent on which portion of the sound file is sampled.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019
Editors	Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain, Paul Warren
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
Pages	3090-3094
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9780646800691
Publication status	Published - Aug 2019
Event	19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences - Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → 9 Aug 2019 Conference number: 19 https://www.icphs2019.org/

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Conference	19th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences
Abbreviated title	ICPhS 2019
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	5/08/19 → 9/08/19
Internet address	https://www.icphs2019.org/

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A Cautionary Tale for Phonetic Analysis: The Variability of Speech between and within Recording Sessions
Sula Ross (Speaker), Katherine Earnshaw (Speaker) & Erica Gold (Speaker)
7 Aug 2019
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WYRED - West Yorkshire Regional English Database
Gold, E. (Creator), Earnshaw, K. (Creator) & Ross, S. (Creator), UK Data Service, 10 Sep 2020
DOI: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-854354, https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854354/
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Ross, S., Earnshaw, K., & Gold, E. (2019). A Cautionary Tale For Phonetic Analysis: The Variability of Speech Between and Within Recording Sessions. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 3090-3094). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.. http://intro2psycholing.net/ICPhS/

Ross, Sula ; Earnshaw, Katherine ; Gold, Erica. / A Cautionary Tale For Phonetic Analysis : The Variability of Speech Between and Within Recording Sessions. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. editor / Sasha Calhoun ; Paola Escudero ; Marija Tabain ; Paul Warren. Canberra : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2019. pp. 3090-3094

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A Cautionary Tale For Phonetic Analysis : The Variability of Speech Between and Within Recording Sessions. / Ross, Sula; Earnshaw, Katherine; Gold, Erica.

Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. ed. / Sasha Calhoun; Paola Escudero; Marija Tabain; Paul Warren. Canberra : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2019. p. 3090-3094.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Ross S, Earnshaw K, Gold E. A Cautionary Tale For Phonetic Analysis: The Variability of Speech Between and Within Recording Sessions. In Calhoun S, Escudero P, Tabain M, Warren P, editors, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. Canberra: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. 2019. p. 3090-3094

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