Acoustic Correlates of Deceptive Speech - An Exploratory Study

David M. Howard*, Christin Kirchhuebel

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The current work sets out to enhance our knowledge of changes or lack of changes in the speech signal when people are being deceptive. In particular, the study attempted to investigate the appropriateness of using speech cues in detecting deception. Truthful, deceptive and control speech was elicited from five speakers during an interview setting. The data was subjected to acoustic analysis and results are presented on a range of speech parameters including fundamental frequency (f0), overall intensity and mean vowel formants F1, F2 and F3. A significant correlation could not be established for any of the acoustic features examined. Directions for future work are highlighted.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS
EditorsD Harris
Place of PublicationBERLIN
PublisherSpringer
Pages28-37
Number of pages10
Volume6781 LNAI
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-21740-1
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event9th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics (EPCE) Held as Part of 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) - Orlando
Duration: 9 Jul 201114 Jul 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
PublisherSPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN
Volume6781
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics (EPCE) Held as Part of 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
CityOrlando
Period9/07/1114/07/11

Keywords

  • speech
  • Voice Stress Analyzer
  • STRATEGIES
  • Deception
  • acoustic
  • VOICE

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