Analysis and Results

Abstract

Speech of person is characterized using some phonetic features like stylistic impression, phonation, nasality, dynamic of loudness, and flow of speech. Based on these features, the linguistic characteristics of a person in specimen are compared with that of the person in questioned. A conventional method, combined aural and spectrographic method, is used for analysis of speech exemplars. Although analysis is performed equally on all the speech exemplars of all chosen regional dialects, due to limited space, Khariboli and Bhojpuri dialects are selected to discuss the results in this chapter. Bhojpuri dialect is selected randomly, whereas Khariboli is considered as a base language in this study. A prosodic analysis is also performed in order to study the intonation tonal pattern of the dialects. This chapter will go through the details of each method used and the results obtained through it.