Re: For Speech Understanding ("C.M. Rankovic" )

Subject: Re: For Speech Understanding
From:    "C.M. Rankovic"  <rankovic(at)ARTICULATION.COM>
Date:    Mon, 5 Jan 2004 08:32:09 -0500

Correct address for the Acoustical Society of America is asa.aip.org (no
"www").

----- Original Message -----
From: "C.M. Rankovic" <rankovic(at)ARTICULATION.COM>
To: <AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: For Speech Understanding


> Dear Xiao:
>
> Bell Telephone Laboratories had a 30-year research program dedicated to
> determining factors influencing speech intelligibility.  Results are
> contained in the book, ¡°Speech and Hearing in Communication,¡± by Harvey
> Fletcher (1953).  Chapters 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 provide basic
information
> on these factors, and this may be what you are looking for.
>
> Fletcher¡¯s book was quite popular and may among your university's library
> collection.  If not, you may purchase a reissued version (edited by J. B.
> Allen) from the Acoustical Society of America.  (See www.asa.aip.org).
>
> Christine Rankovic, PhD
> Articulation Incorporated
> 36 Hampshire Street, 2nd Floor
> Cambridge, MA  02139
> USA
> 617-354-8335
> rankovic(at)articulation.com
> AI = V x E x F x H
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "xiao xianbo" <xxb00(at)MAILS.TSINGHUA.EDU.CN>
> To: <AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA>
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:12 PM
> Subject: For Speech Understanding
>
>
> > Dear List,
> >
> >         I have some questions confusing me. I am doing some signal
> > processing work to improve impaired persons' hearing.
> > Now I am focused on OHC and IHC damnification caused deaf.
> >         What I want to know is, in a speech signal, what are the
important
> > cues to keep high intelligibility.      For example,
> > in single channel, phase infomation is not so important, while formants'
> > location and relative intensity are significative.
> > Is there some article discribe general facts influencing speech
> > understanding. These will tell me what to emphasize, what to
> > dismiss, what to keep, when I design the hearing compensation
algorithms.
> >
> >         Thank all.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > xiao xiaonbo
> >
> > Tsinghua Univ.
> >
> > Beijing, China