Energy distribution in formant bands for arabic vowels

Mohamed Farchi (University Hassan First)
Karim Tahiry (University Hassan First)
Soufyane Mounir (University Hassan First)
Badia Mounir (University Cadi Ayyad)
Ahmed Mouhsen (University Hassan First)

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 9, No 2: April 2019

The acoustic cues play a major role in speech segmentation phase; the extraction of these indexes facilitates the characterization of the speech signal. In this work, we aim to study Arabic vowels (/a/, /a:/, /i/, /i:/, /u/ and /u:/), especially the long ones. We are interested in characterizing this type of vowels in terms of time, frequency and energy. The cues extracted and analyzed in this work are: segment length, voicing degree and formants values.