Automatic Accent and Gender Recognition of Regional UK Speakers

Chrisina Jayne; Victor Chang; Jozeene Bailey; Qianwen Ariel Xu

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08223-8_6

Automatic Accent and Gender Recognition of Regional UK Speakers

Chrisina Jayne, Victor Chang, Jozeene Bailey, Qianwen Ariel Xu

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Abstract

With the ubiquity of voice assistants across the UK and the world, speech recognition of the regional accents across the British Isles has proven challenging due to varying pronunciations. This paper proposes an automated recognition of the geographical origin and gender of a voice sample based on the six regional dialects of the United Kingdom. Twenty six features are extracted from 17,877 voice samples and then used to design, implement and evaluate machine learning classifiers based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF) and k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) algorithms. The results suggest that the proposed approach could be applicable for areas such as e-commerce and the service industry, and it provides a contribution to NLP audio research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Engineering Applications of Neural Networks - 23rd International Conference, EAAAI/EANN 2022, Proceedings
Editors	Lazaros Iliadis, Chrisina Jayne, Anastasios Tefas, Elias Pimenidis
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	67-80
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9783031082221
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08223-8_6
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	23rd International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2022 - Chersonisos, Greece Duration: 17 Jun 2022 → 20 Jun 2022

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1600 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	23rd International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2022
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Chersonisos
Period	17/06/22 → 20/06/22

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Jayne, C., Chang, V., Bailey, J., & Xu, Q. A. (2022). Automatic Accent and Gender Recognition of Regional UK Speakers. In L. Iliadis, C. Jayne, A. Tefas, & E. Pimenidis (Eds.), Engineering Applications of Neural Networks - 23rd International Conference, EAAAI/EANN 2022, Proceedings (pp. 67-80). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1600 CCIS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08223-8_6

Jayne, Chrisina ; Chang, Victor ; Bailey, Jozeene et al. / Automatic Accent and Gender Recognition of Regional UK Speakers. Engineering Applications of Neural Networks - 23rd International Conference, EAAAI/EANN 2022, Proceedings. editor / Lazaros Iliadis ; Chrisina Jayne ; Anastasios Tefas ; Elias Pimenidis. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022. pp. 67-80 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Jayne, C, Chang, V, Bailey, J & Xu, QA 2022, Automatic Accent and Gender Recognition of Regional UK Speakers. in L Iliadis, C Jayne, A Tefas & E Pimenidis (eds), Engineering Applications of Neural Networks - 23rd International Conference, EAAAI/EANN 2022, Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1600 CCIS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 67-80, 23rd International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2022, Chersonisos, Greece, 17/06/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08223-8_6

Automatic Accent and Gender Recognition of Regional UK Speakers. / Jayne, Chrisina; Chang, Victor; Bailey, Jozeene et al.
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