- Sinewave synthesis
Sinewave synthesis is a technique for synthesizing speech by replacing the
formants (main bands of energy) with pure tone whistles. The first sinewave synthesis program ("SWS") for the automatic creation of stimuli for perceptual experiments was developed byPhilip Rubin atHaskins Laboratories in the 1970s. This program was subsequently used byRobert Remez ,Philip Rubin , David Pisoni, and other colleagues to show that listeners can perceive continuous speech without traditional speech cues. This work paved the way for a view of speech as a dynamic pattern of trajectories through articulatory-acoustic space.Bibliography
* Rubin, P.E. Sinewave synthesis. Internal memorandum, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, 1980. [http://www.haskins.yale.edu/featured/sws/SWSmanual.pdf]
* Remez, R.E., Rubin, P.E., Pisoni, D.B., & Carrell, T.D. Speech perception without traditional speech cues. "Science", 1981, 212, 947-950.
* Best, C.T., Morrongiello, B. & Robson, R. Perceptual equivalence of acoustic cues in speech and nonspeech perception. "Perception & Psychophysics", 1981, 29, 191-211.
* Remez, R.E., Rubin, P.E., Berns, S.M., Pardo, J.S. & Lang, J.M. On the perceptual organization of speech. "Psychological Review", 1994, 101, 129-156.
* Remez, R. E., Fellowes, J. M., & Rubin, P.E. Talker identification based on phonetic information. "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance", 1997, 23, 651-666.External links
* [http://www.haskins.yale.edu/ Haskins Laboratories]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/~remez/ Robert Remez]
* [http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/rubin.html Philip Rubin]
* [http://www.indiana.edu/~psych/faculty/pisoni.html David Pisoni]
* [http://www.haskins.yale.edu/featured/sws/sws.html SineWave Synthesis]
* [http://www.mindspring.com/~ssshp/ssshp_cd/ss_home.htm Smithsonian Speech Synthesis History Project (SSSHP) 1986-2002]
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