Abstract
Sixteen listeners attempted to identify the talker when listening to speech samples of varying duration and content. The samples, recorded by 10 different talkers, were of five types: excerpted vowels, excerpted consonant-vowel (CV) sequences, monosyllabic words, disyllabic nonsense words, and sentences. Identification accuracy improved directly with the number of phonemes in the sample even when duration was controlled. Stimulus-response matrices differed substantially between the two vowels ([a] and [i]) used in the vowel and CV samples: relative identifiability of the talkers, response preference, and error patterns were all found to depend on vowel type. Confusion matrices for a given vowel exhibit definite asymmetries. In a limited additional study, subsets of listeners made identifying responses with the tapes reversed; performance deteriorated on even the briefest excerpts. The results pose some difficulties for a model of talker-identification behavior based on attributes of voice quality.
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