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Method and Tool Innovations for Speech Science Education (M.A.T.I.S.S.E.)April 16-17, 1999 |
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Interactive learning in speech and hearing
Stuart Wrigley, Martin Cooke and Guy Brown
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
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Method and Tool Innovations for Speech Science Education (M.A.T.I.S.S.E.)April 16-17, 1999 |
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Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
As part of an ongoing action research study, we have appraised our traditional techniques for the teaching of speech and computational hearing and found them to be inadequate in some respects. In particular, they offer little opportunity for students to experiment interactively with concepts in these fields. As a result, students cannot reflect upon their own experiences nor learn from them. In this paper, we discuss a more interactive approach based on software applications which allow the student to explore the parameter space of the phenomena under discussion. Several examples (chosen from a range of more than twenty MATLAB applications) which illustrate the philosophical and pedagogical elements of this ongoing project are discussed. These include animations of basilar membrane motion, explorations of concurrent vowel perception, interactive visualisations of cepstral processing and computer-based audiometry training.
Bibliographic reference. Wrigley, Stuart / Cooke, Martin / Brown, Guy (1999): "Interactive learning in speech and hearing", In MATISSE-1999, 21-24.