Re: formant filtering (Ramdas Kumaresan )


Subject: Re: formant filtering
From:    Ramdas Kumaresan  <kumar(at)ELE.URI.EDU>
Date:    Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:45:52 -0500

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(at)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 > >> e-mail: tothl(at)inf.u-szeged.hu * when you stop trying" > >> http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl * > >> > >> > > > >


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