Speech Perception Without Traditional Speech Cues

1981/05/22 by Robert E. Remez, Philip E. Rubin, David B. Pisoni +1 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Psychology · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Speech Recognition and Synthesis #Speech and Audio Processing

paper · doi:10.1126/science.7233191

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Abstract

A three-tone sinusoidal replica of a naturally produced utterance was identified by listeners, despite the readily apparent unnatural speech quality of the signal. The time-varying properties of these highly artificial acoustic signals are apparently sufficient to support perception of the linguistic message in the absence of traditional acoustic cues for phonetic segments.

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