Re: formant filtering

[Ramdas Kumaresan <kumar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alain de Cheveigne pointed me to the following.



de Cheveigné, A. (1999). Formant bandwidth affects the identification
of competing vowels. Proc. ICPhS, 2093-2096, available as:
http://www.ircam.fr/pcm/cheveign/ps/icphs99.pdf



Quoting Dashtseren Erdenebat <bat@CS.INF.SHIZUOKA.AC.JP>:

> Dear list,
> Do you have any reference answering to this question ?
>
>
>
> Ramdas Kumaresan wrote:
>
> > Can any one point to some specific references where some one has shown
> > that
> > "narrower formant bandwidth leads to improved intelligibility"?
> >
> >
> > Tóth László wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Eckard Blumschein wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>please don't take it amiss if I admit my guess: A narrower bandwidth at
> the
> >>>level of auditory nerve would not improve but on the contrary degradate
> >>>accuracy of hearing in general.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>Then, psychoacoustic experiments that find that narrower formant bandwidth
> >>improves intelligibility could help you revisit your theory.
> >>I think this has already been shown many times, and our colleagues
> >>(probably Mr. Sivaprasad himself?) could give us some references on
> >>this.
> >>
> >>               Laszlo Toth
> >>        Hungarian Academy of Sciences         *
> >>  Research Group on Artificial Intelligence   *   "Failure only begins
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> >>
> >>
> >
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