Subject: Re: formant filtering From: Dashtseren Erdenebat <bat(at)CS.INF.SHIZUOKA.AC.JP> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:16:07 +0900--------------040105090206030005070800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear list, Do you have any reference answering to this question ? Ramdas Kumaresan wrote: > 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 * >> >> > --------------040105090206030005070800 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> Dear list,<br> Do you have any reference answering to this question ?<br> <br> <br> <br> Ramdas Kumaresan wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid3E5E2BE0.10806(at)ele.uri.edu"> 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: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> 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: <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" <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/%7Etothl">http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl</a> * </pre> </blockquote> <br> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------040105090206030005070800--