Fluency Articulation and Speech Rate as new parameters in the Speaker Recognition

The subject of this study is to compare, in the Speaker Recognition area, a new objective method, dealing with the domain of time, with the perceptual method. After a brief review of confused definitions in linguistics literature about fluency indexes, we will focus on the Articulation Rate and Speech Rate as parameters to be used for the identification of a speaker in a closed-set of known voices. We calculated the Articulation and Speech Rate of samples of read speech using five female speakers with same diatopic and diastratic features having also parental relationships.