Gender specific speech feature variation in Hindi and English language
Speech is a medium through which we can convey our message, thoughts and express emotions by producing articulatory sounds. There are various properties of speech that may vary from person to person or from language to language. The power of human language is found to be effected by variations in language. However, not much work has been done to analyze similarities and dissimilarities of speech features between male and female speaking English and Hindi language. The prosodic statistics for instance like stress and rhythm which are basically coded into intensity, pitch and formants. We have further examined the utilization of pitch and formants to study the linguistic difference of speech properties of English and Hindi Language in males and females. We clustered the speech samples into two categories and concentrated basically on pitch and formant values of speech signals. In this paper we have studied the variation of speech features in male and female speaking in two different language, they are English and Hindi. From our study we observed a significant change in the values of pitch and formants in male and female speaking English and Hindi language.
2016 3rd International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom)