The Discrimination of Pitch in Pulse Trains and Speech

Abstract

Much research has been conducted on the discrimination of pure and complex tones. Yet relatively little work has been carried out on the discrimination of pitch in speech. Thus, the present experiment was designed to explore listener's ability to discriminate the pitch to three types of acoustically complex stimuli - pulse trains with monotone pitch, vocoded speech with monotone pitch, and vocoded speech with natural pitch. Results revealed that the discrimination of naturally intoned sentences was worse than that of the pulse trains or monotone sentences. Implications for speech synthesis and processing are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 12, 1984
Accession Number
ADA142996

Entities

People

  • B. Gold
  • M. A. Mack

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Amplitude
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Data Science
  • Detection
  • Frequency
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Linear Regression Analysis
  • New York
  • Pitch Discrimination
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Steady State

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation