Re: AUDITORY Digest - 15 Jan 2003 to 16 Jan 2003 (#2003-13)

[Jont Allen <jba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would look at GA Millers work:

author={Miller, G. A. and Heise, G. A. and Lichten, W.},
year={1951},
title={The intelligibility of speech as a function of the context
       of the test material},
journal={J. Exp. Psychol.},
volume={41},
pages={329-335} }


,author={Miller, G. A.}
,title={Decision units in the perception of speech}
,journal="IRE Transactions on Information Theory"
,year=1962
,month=feb
,volume={}
,number={}
,pages={81--83}
,note_={Grammar = 4 dB of SNR; is it just a first order grammer?
       It is less than 5th.} }

,author={Miller, G. A. and Isard, S.}
,title={Some perceptual consequences of linguistic rules}
,journal="Jol. of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior"
,year=1963
,month={}
,volume={2}
,number={}
,pages={217-228}


I have e versions of the last two of these, but there are copyright
issues, I suspect.
I will trade my last two for anyone who can get me the first one in
scaned form.

Claude Shannon also did some work on this, but I doubt that is what you
are looking for here.
Jont



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> Date:    Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:37:22 +0100
> From:    =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?T=F3th_L=E1szl=F3?= <tothl@INF.U-SZEGED.HU>
> Subject: Re: Phoneme discrimination tests
>
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Hugo de Paula wrote:
>
> > Most of discrimination tests that allow the contruction of a phoneme based
> > confusion matrix uses nonsense words like DRT and MRT. Does anyone know of a
> > database and/or test procedure that allows us to find this kind of results
> > using rhyme words or sentences that are part of the language instead of using
> > nonsense?
> I am just wondering whether nonsense speech testing has ever been extended
> to sentences. That is, has anybody ever made an algorithm that
> creates nonsense sentences "in a given language". By this restriction I
> mean that
> 1. Some basic statistics of the generated sentences (e.g. phoneme
> statistics, word-length statistics) should fit that of the language.
> 2. The generated sentences should obey the phonotactic rules of the
> language.
> 3. The edit distance between the words of the generated text and any real
> word of the language should by larger than a certain threshold.
>
>               Laszlo Toth
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