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Workshop on the Auditory Basis of Speech PerceptionKeele University, UK |
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Workshop on the Auditory Basis of Speech PerceptionKeele University, UK |
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By now it is generally accepted that natural speech is more than a simple concatenation of stationary events, and that spectro-temporal dynamics plays an important role, whereas also variability in realization, including substantial reduction, adds to the naturalness of speech. It is much less clear how dynamic events can best be analyzed and represented and how they are perceived by listeners. By using methods from both psycho-acoustics and speech perception we try to specify the perceptual relevance of various sources of variation. By comparing dynamic spectral and duration data between conversational and read speech, normal- and fast-rate speech, stressed and unstressed syllables, high-frequent and low-frequent words, etc. we try to get better insight in how much variation occurs and how systematic that variation is.
Bibliographic reference. Pols, Louis C. W. (1996): "Analysis and perception of dynamic events and of reduction phenomena in speech", In ABSP-1996, 17-22.