A Study of Speech Fractal Dimensions
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Oto-Laryngologica
- Vol. 119 (2), 261-266
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00016489950181783
Abstract
The fractal dimension (D) of a signal gives an estimate of its degree of freedom, which allows estimation of its fluctuations. Using 16 kHz time sampling and the box counting method we studied the Ds of some of the main stationary parts of French speech, the phonemes [a], [e], [i], [o], [y], pronounced 4 times by 10 males and 10 females. Our study demonstrated that the stationary signal of vowels is not fractal, but may, at the smallest scale, provide a kind of signature for each vowel, though the present categorization is not totally significant. Since the box counting method objectifies and quantifies the roughness of the signal, this procedure may be useful for clinical applications. In case of dysphonia, moreover, these signatures could be perhaps be included in the speech signal processing of cochlear implants.Keywords
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