Can conversational word usage be used to predict speaker demographics?
Dan Gillick · 2010
This work surveys the potential for predicting demographic traits of individual speakers (gender, age, education level, eth-nicity, and geographic region) using only word usage features derived from the output of a speech recognition system on con-versational American English. Significant differences in word usage patterns among the different classes allow for reasonably high classification accuracy (60%-82%), even without extensive training data. Index Terms: demographics, speech recognition, classification 1.