Subject: Re: formant filtering From: Ramdas Kumaresan <kumar(at)ELE.URI.EDU> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:16:48 -0500--------------090705030907090208060608 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Can any one point to some specific references where some one has shown that "narrower formant bandwidth leads to improved intelligibility"? Tóth László wrote: >On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Eckard Blumschein wrote: > >>please don't take it amiss if I admit my guess: A narrower bandwidth at the >>level of auditory nerve would not improve but on the contrary degradate >>accuracy of hearing in general. >> > >Then, psychoacoustic experiments that find that narrower formant bandwidth >improves intelligibility could help you revisit your theory. >I think this has already been shown many times, and our colleagues >(probably Mr. Sivaprasad himself?) could give us some references on >this. > > Laszlo Toth > Hungarian Academy of Sciences * > Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins > e-mail: tothl(at)inf.u-szeged.hu * when you stop trying" > http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl * > --------------090705030907090208060608 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> </head> <body> Can any one point to some specific references where some one has shown that<br> "narrower formant bandwidth leads to improved intelligibility"? <br> <br> <br> Tóth László wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:Pine.GHP.4.44.0302271053270.27127-100000(at)amadea.inf.u-szeged.hu"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Eckard Blumschein wrote:<br><br></pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">please don't take it amiss if I admit my guess: A narrower bandwidth at the<br>level of auditory nerve would not improve but on the contrary degradate<br>accuracy of hearing in general.<br></pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----><br>Then, psychoacoustic experiments that find that narrower formant bandwidth<br>improves intelligibility could help you revisit your theory.<br>I think this has already been shown many times, and our colleagues<br>(probably Mr. Sivaprasad himself?) could give us some references on<br>this.<br><br> Laszlo Toth<br> Hungarian Academy of Sciences *<br> Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins<br> e-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tothl(at)inf.u-szeged.hu">tothl(at)inf.u-szeged.hu</a> * when you stop trying"<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl">http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl</a> *<br></pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------090705030907090208060608--