Determining the Euclidean Distance Between Two Steady State Sounds
Hiroko Terasawa, Malcolm Slaney, Jonathan C Berger · 2006
We describe a perceptual space for timbre, define an ob-jective metric that takes into account perceptual orthogo-nality and measure the quality of timbre interpolation. We discuss two timbre representations and using these two representations, measure perceived relationships between pairs of sounds on a equivalent range of timbre variety. We determine that a timbre space based on Mel-frequency cep-stral coefficients (MFCC) is a good model for a perceptual timbre space.