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


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