(no subject) (Ramdas Kumaresan )

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From:    Ramdas Kumaresan  <kumar(at)ELE.URI.EDU>
Date:    Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:10:46 -0400

  Martin Braun wrote:
It is obvious that complex sound with only unresolved harmonics produces a
pitch perception. But such sound is non-existent in a natural environment,
and this pitch percept is weaker and slower than that caused by natural
sound with resolved harmonics.



I dont understand why sounds with unresolved harmonics are
'non-existent' in nature. Speech signals have many high harmonics
 that are not resolved by the auditory system.
Ofcourse they probably dont contribute much  to pitch perception
but to say that unresolved harmonics dont exist in a natural environment
is wrong.