Pattern Playback in the 90s
Malcolm Slaney · 1994
Deciding the appropriate representation to use for modeling human auditory processing is a critical issue in auditory science. While engi-neers have successfully performed many single-speaker tasks with LPC and spectrogram methods, more difficult problems will need a richer representation. This paper describes a powerful auditory representation known as the correlogram and shows how this non-linear representation can be converted back into sound, with no loss of perceptually impor-tant information. The correlogram is interesting because it is a neuro-physiologically plausible representation of sound. This paper shows improved methods for spectrogram inversion (conventional pattern playback), inversion of a cochlear model, and inversion of the correlo-gram representation. 1 INTRODUCTIONl My interest in auditory models and perceptual displays [2] is motivated by the problem of