Re: Directional characteristics of the human voice

[Sergio Rodríguez Soria <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Angelique,

Prof. Angelo Farina and his team are doing research on that area. They
recently published at the 118 AES Convention in Barcelona, a paper about
directional characteristics of the voice inside cars, presenting several
manequins with loudspeakers attached.

The paper is:

"Balloons of Directivity of Real and Artificial Mouth Used in Determining
Speech Transmission Index", preprint 6492

He use to publish his paper on his website:

http://pcfarina.eng.unipr.it/Public/Papers/list_pub.htm

However, that paper is not there yet, but I'm sure you can find
other interesting material about the topic there, or ask him for a copy.

Regards,

Sergio



Sergio Rodríguez Soria
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Signal Processing Laboratory
Polytecnhic School of the University of Sao Paulo
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CEP 05508-900, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Scharine, Angelique (Civ,ARL/HRED) wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:19:10 -0400
> From: "Scharine, Angelique (Civ,ARL/HRED)" <AScharine@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Directional characteristics of the human voice
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> I'm hoping that someone could help me find articles describing the directional characteristics of the human voice. I'm selecting loudspeakers for an experiment, and I want to be sure that they replicate the directionality of human speech. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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