| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L03422/01 |
| Title: |
THE AUDITORY REPRESENTATION OF SPEECH SOUNDS: THE CASE OF THE FIRST FORMANT |
| Principal Investigator: |
Darwin, Professor CJ |
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| Department: |
Sch of Psychology |
| Organisation: |
University of Sussex |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1996 |
Ends: |
30 November 1999 |
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181,711
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Human Communication in ICT |
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Although format frequencies are recognised by phoneticians as giving the most useful characterisation of a vowel's quality (since they are impervious to various distortions that can alter the overall spectral shape), formats are rarely used in speech recognition because of the difficulty in extracting them reliably. There is also little direct psychological evidence for the human auditory system extracting format frequencies. The proposed research will carry out perceptual experiments aimed (I) at demonstrating that listeners do indeed extract the frequency of the first format, and (II) at gaining insight into the mechanisms used.
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk |