Perceived Quality of Resonance-Based Decomposed Vowels and Consonants

Tan CT, Guo B, Selesnick I. Perceived Quality of Resonance-Based Decomposed Vowels and Consonants. In: AES Convention 131. Audio Engineering Society; 2011. Paper 8480. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=16006

@inproceedings{Tan2011_16006,
  author = {Tan, Chin-Tuan and Guo, Benjamin and Selesnick, Ivan},
  title = {{Perceived Quality of Resonance-Based Decomposed Vowels and Consonants}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 131},
  note = {Paper 8480},
  year = {2011},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=16006}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Perceived Quality of Resonance-Based Decomposed Vowels and Consonants
AU  - Tan, Chin-Tuan
AU  - Guo, Benjamin
AU  - Selesnick, Ivan
T2  - AES Convention 131
M1  - Paper 8480
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2011/10/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=16006
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - The ultimate objective of this study is to employ a resonance-based decomposition method for the manipulation of acoustic cues in speech. Resonance-based decomposition (Selesnick, 2010) is a newly proposed nonlinear signal analysis method based not on frequency or scale but on resonance; the method is able to decompose a complex non-stationary signal into a ‘high-resonance’ component and a ‘low-resonance’ component using a combination of low- and high- Q-factors. In this study, we conducted a subjective listening experiment on five normal hearing listeners to assess the perceived quality of decomposed components, with the intention of deriving the perceptually relevant combinations of low- and high- Q-factors. Our results show that normal hearing listeners generally rank high-resonance components of speech stimuli higher than low-resonance components. This may be due to a greater salience of perceptually significant formant cues in high-resonance stimuli.
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