Subject: Re: Origin of the Mel frequency scale equation? From: Christine Rankovic <rankovic@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:28:06 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>It might be: Stevens, S., and J. Volkmann (1940). The relation of pitch to frequency: A revised scale. Am. J. Psychol. 53:329-353. Sincerely, Christine Rankovic, PhD rankovic@xxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arturo Camacho" <acamacho@xxxxxxxx> To: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:09 AM Subject: Origin of the Mel frequency scale equation? > Dear members of the list, > > I am looking for the reference of first use of the equation > > m = C log(1+f/700) > > known as mel frequency scale transformation. In Wikipedia says that the > scale was originated by Stevens, Volkman and Newman in 1937 (J. Acoust. > Soc. Am 8(3) 185--190), but the paper only has tabulated data and no > equation. The paper by S.B. Davis & P. Mermelstein (1980), "Comparison of > parametric representations for monosyllabic word recognition in > continuously spoken sentences", IEEE Trans. on ASSP 28, 357-366 is usually > cited in the speech recognition community as origin of MFCCs, but the > equation is absent there as well. > > Thanks, > > Arturo > > -- > __________________________________________________ > > Arturo Camacho, PhD > Alumni > Computer and Information Science and Engineering > University of Florida > > E-mail: acamacho@xxxxxxxx > Web page: www.cise.ufl.edu/~acamacho > __________________________________________________ >