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Regional accent identification: principles, problems, results

William J. Barry

Regional accent identification is carried out by means of sentence-internal comparison of selected stressed vowels from four calibration sentences. Regional reference vowels are adapted to the individual's vowel space by fitting the reference system over the individual's centroid and correcting for differences in dispersion. Results of accent identification and of vowel recognition before and after adaptation are presented.