Acoustic Analysis of Formants Across Genders and Ethnical Accents in Malaysian English Using ANOVA

This paper presents the investigation of acoustic characteristics of ethnically diverse accents in Malaysian English across genders. The study of Malaysian English is still at infancy and the cues of how accents can be differentiated by human are less understandable. Understanding this through the use of formants would discover the importance of these features that can be used to drive the classification results. It was found that males and females differ in terms of all formants scores that correlate to accents in great details using two-way and one-way analysis of variance and the plots of normal fit of individual formant.