The principal application area of this research is in automatic animation.
Secondary applications are in video conferencing and aid to the hearing disabled.
The application areas of this research are in law enforcement and espionage detection, both government and corporate. A typical scenario is a recording of a person leaving a bomb threat or revealing corporate secrets, and the use of the recording to identify the culprit. Papers Rodman, R., McAllister, D., Bitzer, D., Cepeda, L. and Powell, M. Text-Independent Speaker Identification Using Spectral Moments Applied to Isophonemic Sequences. Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speaker Recognition in Telephony. Rodman, R., McAllister, D., Bitzer, D., Fu, H. and Xu, B. A Pitch Tracker for Identifying Voiced Consonants.