Matching Twin and non-Twin Siblings from Phonation Characteristics

The similarity in twins’ voice has always been an intriguing issue in forensic speaker matching, and has become an important research matter recently. The present work is a preliminary study of exploratory character diving into the similarities of monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins’ phonation...

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Autores: San Segundo Fernández, Eugenia, Gómez-Vilda, Eugenia
Tipo de recurso: otro
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/387289
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/387289
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Voice production
Forensic
Pattern matching
Phonation
Glottal source features
Styles
Twins
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Sumario:The similarity in twins’ voice has always been an intriguing issue in forensic speaker matching, and has become an important research matter recently. The present work is a preliminary study of exploratory character diving into the similarities of monozygotic (MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins’ phonation under the point of view of vocal fold biomechanics. The study extends to other siblings’ and unrelated speakers’ phonation. Estimates of biomechanical parameters obtained from vowel fillers are used to produce bilateral matches between MZ and DZ twins and siblings, and unrelated speakers. These results show interesting relationships regarding genetic load and ambient factors in the adoption of phonation styles.