The Use of Temporal Features in Cortical Segmentation of Syllables
- There is high confidence for the hypothesis that in speech perception the cycles of a θ-oscillation segment the auditory signal into syllables [8]. Yet the functionality of the oscillator generating the θ-oscillation is unknown. We follow the finding that, within an auditory scene, speech is perceived as a stream given by temporal coherence [12]. We work with the hypotheses that the θ-oscillator is driven by temporal features providing this coherence. We propose a new temporal feature called O-distance, which detects the onset of a syllable - the starting point to of a θ-cycle–triggered by the temporal distance from to to the instance of the maximal rise of the loudness curve of the vowel. To extract to from the auditory signal, we use the statistical properties of this distance based on the C-center hypothesis [25], which predicts a close temporal relation of the onset consonants to the onset of a vowel. The statistics are derived from reference O-distance extracted from an articulatory database, where the minima and maxima of the loudness are related to maxima and minima of the lower incisor and tongue tip. To judge the quality of the O-distance extracted from the auditory signal, we regard the temporal deviation of the O-distance to the reference O-distance. Currently we achieve a mean deviation of 34ms.
Author: | Harald Höge |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-70823 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35096/othr/pub-7082 |
ISBN: | 978-3-95908-325-6 |
Parent Title (German): | Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2024, Tagungsband der 35. Konferenz, Regensburg, 6.-8. März 2024 |
Publisher: | TUDpress |
Place of publication: | Dresden |
Editor: | Timo Baumann |
Document Type: | conference proceeding (article) |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
Publishing Institution: | Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg |
Release Date: | 2024/04/10 |
First Page: | 70 |
Last Page: | 77 |
Andere Schriftenreihe: | Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation ; 107 |
Institutes: | Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik |
Publication: | Externe Publikationen |
research focus: | Information und Kommunikation |
Licence (German): | Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG |