Free Classification of Vocal Imitations of Everyday Sounds

Þ Goal: Þ Analyze a free classification of vocal imitations of everyday sounds. Þ Highlight the acoustic properties of the imitated sound sources. Þ Motivations: Þ Vocal imitations are simple but still allow the recognition of the imitated sources. Þ They provide a paradigm for studying the acoustic invariants of the sounds. Þ Contributions: Þ Analysis of the individual strategies with the RV coefficient. Þ Creation of clusters with the inconsistency coefficient. Þ Prediction of the clusters with acoustic descriptors and binary decision rules.