Subject: Re: AUDITORY Digest - 3 Mar 2005 to 4 Mar 2005 (#2005-41) From: "M.A. Stone" <mas19(at)CUS.CAM.AC.UK> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:08:10 +0000 X-Cam-ScannerInfo:http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jont Allen wrote: > Fast attack (1 sample, 0 delay) and exp decay is good, psychophysically > speaking. Would beg to disagree here: try...... Stone M.A. & Moore B.C.J. (2004). Side effects of fast-acting dynamic range compression that affect intelligibility in a competing speech task. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116:2311-2323. Experiment 1 shows the effect of attack time on intelligibility in a competing speech task ('noise-vocoder' simulation), with a single channel fast-acting compressor (CR = 7). < 2msec attack = not good. It was a similar comment by Jont at an IHCON meeting (Tahoe ?) that partly made us do the experiment. ;-) Michael Stone Psychoacoustics Group Department of Experimental Psychology University of Cambridge, Downing St. Cambridge CB2 3EB. United Kingdom. Group site: http://hearing.psychol.cam.ac.uk/ Dept site : http://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/