Studying speech perception: from simple stationary stimuli to more and more complex speech(-like) signals
L.C.W. Pols · 1989
Iu psycho-acoustic research it is common practice to use rather simple, mainly stationary, stimulus sounds such as pure tones. However, concerning the research methods the approaches chosen are frequently very advanced. As a contrast, in most-speech perception research the (speech) stimuli are dynamic in nature and spectrally complex, but the task is often a simple forced-choice identification. It might be very useful to combine the best of both approaches, in that way gaining more insight in the process of natural speech perception as well as in the understanding of synthetic speech. 1.