speechpapers.bsky.social

speechpapers.bsky.social

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Every day I post short descriptions (well titles, really) of recent speech articles

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Fifty years ago, McGurk & MacDonald dubbed the sound /ba/ onto a face mouthing /ga/ & 'most' people heard /da/. For the effectโ€™s 50th anniversary, we surveyed 37 researchers in AV speech & multisensory perception: does McGurk still deserve its iconic status? ๐Ÿงต

In the 1960s-70s, LPC revolutionized speech processing by modeling the vocal tract as a linear filter. This efficient compression method enabled digital speech transmission and became the basis for early voice calls. ๐Ÿ“ž Foundation of digital telephony #SpeechScience #Technology

In the 1930s, Stevens and Volkmann showed that our perception of pitch isn't linear - the mel scale was born! This perceptual scale is now fundamental to speech processing and voice technology. ๐ŸŽต Foundation of modern speech recognition systems #SpeechScience #Perception

During WWII, engineers at Bell Labs developed the sound spectrograph to analyze encrypted speech. After the war, it became the speech scientist's most important tool for visualizing sound. ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Learn more: antiqueradio.org/soundspec.htm #SpeechScience #Technology

Gunnar Fant's source-filter theory (1960) explained how speech is produced: a sound source (vocal folds) filtered by the vocal tract shape. This model is still the foundation of speech science today! ๐Ÿ“– Reference: Fant's Acoustic Theory of Speech Production #SpeechScience #Theory