The Speaker Identification Ability of Blind and Sighted Listeners An
Almut Braun carried out forensic phonetic speaker identification experiments (voice lineups) with 306 lay listeners. Blind listeners significantly outperformed sighted listeners when the speech recordings were presented in studio quality. For recordings i
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The Speaker Identification Ability of Blind and Sighted Listeners An Empirical Investigation
The Speaker Identification Ability of Blind and Sighted Listeners
Almut Braun
The Speaker Identification Ability of Blind and Sighted Listeners An Empirical Investigation
Almut Braun York, United Kingdom Dissertation Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2015
ISBN 978-3-658-15197-3 ISBN 978-3-658-15198-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-15198-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016947740 Springer VS © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer VS imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
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Acknowledgements
First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my first supervisor Prof. Dr. Hermann J. Künzel, whose expertise and patience guided me through this project. I also want to gratefully thank Prof. Dr. Richard Wiese, my second supervisor, for his constructive feedback and his very helpful comments. Clearly, this research project could not have been done without the help of a lot of other people whom I want to thank here: I am truly thankful to Dr. Gea de Jong-Lendle, who has been a fantastic colleague, friend and a constant source of advice, encouragement and support. Furthermore, I want to especially thank Jos Vermeulen MSc for the fruitful discussions we had about science and for being a wonderful and competent advisor in every respect. Prof. Dr. Andreas Jansen and Dr. Jens Sommer I thank for their collaboration and the opportunity to expand my research activities in the field of fMRI. I thank Markus Jesberg for helping me with the mobile phone re-recordings and Jeffrey Michael Falk for carefully proofreading my thesis. Of course, this project would not have been possible without my parti
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