Subject: Young female speaker? From: Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:51:01 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Hi I'm not sure where the 100 Hz comes from -- emulation of a young female voice? Best Kevin > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:47:00 -0500 > From: Kyle Gorman <kgorman@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: noise-masking experiments and labiovelars > > Hi listers, I have two related questions for you. > > I'm interested in the effects of following vowels on the perception > of labiovelars. I was wondering if 1) anybody had done the > experiment I'm proposing and 2) whether anybody had tried using > stimuli generated in a manner I'm proposing. > > ... > > The procedure is as follows. I calculate the RMS amplitude of the > original signal by convolving the squared signal with a Kaiser > window with beta =3D 20, # of points given by 3.2 x the number of > frames for a single period of the lowest pitch, which I set at 100 > Hz (young female speaker), then taking the square root of the result.