Gender Determination Using Voice Data

Abstract

The rapid advancement of today's technologies, it is tried to facilitate whichever system will be used by using voice features such as person recognition and speech recognition by making use of the voices of the users. Organizations serving in these systems need less manpower and facilitate the operation by helping users faster. The decision-making process using sound features is a very challenging process. With gender recognition, which is one of these steps, it is possible to address the user by gender. In this study, it is aimed to define the genders according to the voices in terms of both forensic informatics and the rapid and accurate progress of the processes. In this study, 3168 male and female voice samples were taken as a dataset. Sound samples were first analyzed by acoustic analysis in R using seewave and tuneR packages. Artificial neural networks were used in the classification stage. In order to increase the classification accuracy, the dataset was divided into 10 parts and each part was excluded from training for testing and used for retesting. Average classification success was found by taking the arithmetic mean of the results. In the classification made with artificial neural networks, male and female voices could be distinguished from each other with a success of 97.9%.

Keywords

• Voice
• Gender Determination
• Regression
• Machine learning

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