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 …