Re: MFCC method

[Malcolm Slaney <malcolm@xxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:40 PM, James W. Beauchamp wrote:
> I'm looking for a (the?) seminal article on the MFCC method of
> coding spectral envelopes. It could be a journal paper or a chapter
> in a book. Also, who was the first to publish on this idea?

These are the usual references, especially the 1980 paper.

P. Mermelstein, Distance measures for speech recognition,  
psychological and instrumental, in Pattern Recognition and Artificial  
Intelligence, C. H. Chen, Ed., pp. 374–388. Academic, New York, 1976.

S.B. Davis, and P. Mermelstein, Comparison of Parametric  
Representations for Monosyllabic Word Recognition in Continuously  
Spoken Sentences, in IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and  
Signal Processing, vol. 28(4), 1980, pp. 357–366.


But Mermelstein usually credits John Bridle's work for the idea
	JSRU Report No. 1003
	AN EXPERIMENTAL AUTOMATIC WORD·RECOGNITION SYSTEM:
	INTERIM REPORT
	J . S. Bridle and M. D. Brown


I have copies of the early two if you need them.

- Malcolm