The Speaker Identification Ability of Blind and Sighted Listeners : An Empirical Investigation / by Almut Braun.
"Almut Braun carried out forensic phonetic speaker identification experiments (voice lineups) with 306lay listeners. Blind listeners significantly outperformed sighted listeners when the speech recordings were presented in studio quality. For recordings in mobile phone quality or of whispering...
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Wiesbaden :
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden VS,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- The sensory compensation hypothesis
- Prior research on blind listeners’ auditory abilities
- Possible influences on human speaker identification
- Issues to consider when creating a voice lineup
- Hypotheses for the experiment
- Speaker identification experiment
- Results
- Interview with visually impaired forensic audio analysts
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Future research.