Re: MFCC method

["Richard F. Lyon" <DickLyon@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Malcolm; now that you've told us, it's in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel-frequency_cepstrum#History
Including the connection to earlier work by Pols; I can share
a copy of Plomp, Pols, and van de Geer (1967) on request.

Dick

At 2:07 PM -0800 1/7/09, Malcolm Slaney wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:40 PM, James W. Beauchamp wrote:
> > I'm looking for a (the?) seminal article on the MFCC method of
> > coding spectral envelopes. It could be a journal paper or a chapter
> > in a book. Also, who was the first to publish on this idea?
>
> These are the usual references, especially the 1980 paper.
>
> P. Mermelstein, Distance measures for speech 
> recognition, psychological and instrumental, in 
> Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 
> C. H. Chen, Ed., pp. 374­388. Academic, New 
> York, 1976.
>
> S.B. Davis, and P. Mermelstein, Comparison of 
> Parametric Representations for Monosyllabic Word 
> Recognition in Continuously Spoken Sentences, in 
> IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and 
> Signal Processing, vol. 28(4), 1980, pp. 357­366.
>
>
> But Mermelstein usually credits John Bridle's work for the idea
> 	JSRU Report No. 1003
> 	AN EXPERIMENTAL AUTOMATIC WORD·RECOGNITION SYSTEM:
> 	INTERIM REPORT
> 	J . S. Bridle and M. D. Brown
>
>
> I have copies of the early two if you need them.
>
> - Malcolm