Outputs (14)

How the human brain recognizes speech in the context of changing speakers (2010)
Journal Article
Von Kriegstein, K., Smith, D. R., Patterson, R. D., Kiebel, S. J., & Griffiths, T. D. (2010). How the human brain recognizes speech in the context of changing speakers. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(2), 629-638. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2742-09.2010

We understand speech from different speakers with ease, whereas artificial speech recognition systems struggle with this task. It is unclear how the human brain solves this problem. The conventional view is that speech message recognition and speaker... Read More about How the human brain recognizes speech in the context of changing speakers.

Discrimination of speaker sex and size when glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length are controlled (2007)
Journal Article
Smith, D. R. R., Walters, T. C., & Patterson, R. D. (2007). Discrimination of speaker sex and size when glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length are controlled. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122(6), 3628-3639. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2799507

A recent study [Smith and Patterson, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 3177-3186 (2005)] demonstrated that both the glottal-pulse rate (GPR) and the vocal-tract length (VTL) of vowel sounds have a large effect on the perceived sex and age (or size) of a speak... Read More about Discrimination of speaker sex and size when glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length are controlled.

Neural representation of auditory size in the human voice and in sounds from other resonant sources (2007)
Journal Article
von Kriegstein, K., Smith, D. R. R., Patterson, R. D., Ives, D. T., & Griffiths, T. D. (2007). Neural representation of auditory size in the human voice and in sounds from other resonant sources. Current biology : CB, 17(13), 1123-1128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.061

The size of a resonant source can be estimated by the acoustic-scale information in the sound [1-3]. Previous studies revealed that posterior superior temporal gyrus (STG) responds to acoustic scale in human speech when it is controlled for spectral-... Read More about Neural representation of auditory size in the human voice and in sounds from other resonant sources.

Time to judge sex of speaker: Effect of glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, D. R. (2010, August). Time to judge sex of speaker: Effect of glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length. Presented at 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010, Sydney, Australia

When listening to someone's voice: what stimulus duration is required to tell whether the person speaking is a man or a woman; what are the acoustic cues in speech that influence such judgements; and how does manipulations in these acoustic cues infl... Read More about Time to judge sex of speaker: Effect of glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length.