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Watkins, Raimond & Makin (2011) J Acoust Soc Am 130 2777–2788

Watkins, Raimond & Makin (2011) J Acoust Soc Am 130 2777–2788 temporal envelopes in auditory filters: [s] vs [ st ] distinction is most apparent; - at higher fc - and at nearer distance.

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Watkins, Raimond & Makin (2011) J Acoust Soc Am 130 2777–2788

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  1. Watkins, Raimond & Makin (2011) J AcoustSoc Am 130 2777–2788 • temporal envelopes in auditory filters: • [s] vs [st] distinction is most apparent; • - at higher fc • - and at nearer distance FIG. 2. The traces are temporal envelopes in narrow frequency-bands of test words from the continuum’s “sir” [s3] and “stir” [st3] end-points along with the preceding part of the context, “next you’ll get….” The speech was first convolved with the left channel of a binaural room impulse response (BRIR) obtained with a source to receiver distance of 0.32 m (upper two rows) or 10 m (lower two rows). These sounds were then played through an auditory filter with a center frequency, fc=250 Hz (a) or fc=4.24 kHz (b), followed by full-wave rectification and then lowpass filtering with corner frequencies of 50 Hz (points) or 10 Hz (continuous traces). The interval occupied by the test-word’s [s] or [st] frication lies between the vertical dashed lines, which are the start of the test word (left-hand line) and voice-onset time (VOT) in the original dry recording.

  2. A tail attenuator: low-pass 10 Hz time differential auditory filter full-wave rectify attenuate low-pass 50 Hz low-pass 10 Hz

  3. attenuation 0 dB band 8, fc = 4.24 kHz “n e x t y o u ’ l l g e t . . . . . . . . . ” -12 dB [s] 0.32 m step 0 1 [st] 0.32 m step 10 0 amplitude 1 [s] 10 m step 0 0 1 1 10 m step 10 [st] 0 0 VOT 250 ms time

  4. this sort of tail attenuation • - reduces the mean • - emphasises onsets • - has a high-pass effect on the signal’s modulation • computationally, almost trivial: • - e.g. in C, Fortran etc. • - or in ‘neural’ circuitry

  5. band 8, fc = 4.24 kHz “n e x t y o u ’ l l g e t . . . . . . . . . ” [s] 0.32 m step 0 1 [st] 0.32 m step 10 0 amplitude 1 [s] 10 m step 0 0 1 1 10 m step 10 [st] 0 0 VOT 250 ms time

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