Table 1. Potential for individual identity coding and repeatabilities for ten acoustic parameters from 493 calls of 84 individuals.
Potential for individual identity coding | Repeatabilities | ||||||
Acoustic parameters | mean±SD (untransformed) | meanCVi | CVb | PIC | R | Confidence interval | |
Duration (ms) | 210.24±62.66 | 17.56 | 35.53 | 2.02 | 0.83 | 0.81–0.86 | |
Amplitude | Mean | 32.47±4.83 | 21.60 | 40.70 | 1.88 | 0.85 | 0.83–0.89 |
Amplitude modulation (1/ms) | Variance | (5.06±2.56)×10−3 | 24.90 | 45.86 | 1.84 | 0.82 | 0.80–0.85 |
Frequency (Hz) | Mean | 3933.65±411.20 | 22.34 | 32.79 | 1.47 | 0.73 | 0.68–0.77 |
Frequency modulation | Mean | 11.78±6.39 | 15.89 | 30.50 | 1.92 | 0.81 | 0.78–0.82 |
Frequency modulation | Variance | 286.62±121.03 | 24.13 | 35.82 | 1.48 | 0.75 | 0.68–0.81 |
Entropy | Mean | −2.51±0.44 | 14.53 | 28.05 | 1.93 | 0.80 | 0.77–0.82 |
Entropy | Variance | 0.29±0.15 | 28.75 | 35.76 | 1.24 | 0.66 | 0.63–0.71 |
Pitch (Hz) | Mean | 619.68±66.53 | 13.06 | 35.37 | 2.71 | 0.88 | 0.85–0.90 |
Pitch goodness | Mean | 829.94±314.53 | 18.66 | 40.62 | 2.18 | 0.86 | 0.82–0.86 |