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Factor analyses of critical-band-filtered speech of British English and Japanese.
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PMID:  18529963     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Two-hundred sentences of British English and Japanese, each uttered by 10 native speakers (5 females and 5 males) in each language, were analyzed through 20 bands of critical band filters. Smoothed power fluctuations derived from the filters were submitted to principal component analyses followed by varimax rotation. The first three factors explained 34-37% of variance. One of the factors exhibited two peaks along frequency axis in the standardized scores and two of the factors showed one peak for each. These three factors divided the whole frequency range of speech sound into four bands. The structure of the factors and frequency bands was essentially the same across the two languages. These frequency bands can be used for speech perception in general, because intelligible noise-vocoded speech sounds can be synthesized with the frequency bands.
Authors:
Kazuo Ueda; Yoshitaka Nakajima
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Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America     Volume:  123     ISSN:  1520-8524     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Acoust. Soc. Am.     Publication Date:  2008 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-06-05     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7503051     Medline TA:  J Acoust Soc Am     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  3163     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Perceptual Psychology Unit, Kyushu University, 4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minami-ku, 815-8540 Fukuoka, Japan, ueda@design.kyushu-u.ac.jp.
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