METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING MALE/FEMALE VOICE, MALE/FEMALE VOICE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately identify sexuality of a speaker of a speech signal even when time length of the input speech signal is extremely short.;SOLUTION: A method for identifying male/female voice includes: extracting a speech feature amount from an input speech signal; and identifying the sexuality of a speaker of the speech signal on the basis of likelihood obtained by collating the speech feature amount with a male speech acoustic model and a female speech acoustic model. When the time length of the speech signal is less than a predetermined time length L, the speech signal is repeatedly extended till becoming to have the time length L or more, the speech feature amount is extracted using the extended speech signal, and a collation and an identification are performed using a speech recognition grammar corresponding to the repeat.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT