中科大语音信号处理课件ch4.pdf

Chapter 4 Hearing, Auditory Models, and Speech Perception 听觉，听觉模型与语音感知 1 Topics to be Covered • The Speech Chain (语音链) – Production and Human Perception • Auditory mechanisms ( 听觉机理)— the human ear and how it converts sound to auditory representations • Speech perception (语音感知) and what we know about physical and psychophysical measures of sound • Auditory masking ( 听觉掩蔽) • Sound and word perception in noise 2 Auditory Mechanisms 3 Speech Perception • understanding how we hear sounds and how we perceive speech leads to better design and implementation of robust and efficient systems for analyzing and representing speech • the better we understand signal processing in the human auditory system, the better we can (at least in theory) design practical speech processing systems – speech and audio coding (MP3 audio, cellphone speech) – speech recognition • try to understand speech perception by looking at the physiological models of hearing 4 The Speech Chain • The Speech Chain comprises the processes of: – speech production, – auditory feedback to the speaker, – speech transmission (through air or over an electronic communication system) to the listener, and 5 – speech perception and understanding by the listener. The Speech Chain • The message to be conveyed by speech goes through five levels of representation b