Aims
The efficient coding hypothesis predicts that perceptual systems are optimally adapted to natural signal statistics. Previous work provided statistics of speech signals for 8 languages based on Principal Components Analysis (PCA), arguing that 4 frequency channels would be sufficient to optimally represent clean speech signals for each of these 8 languages. Extending these data to cochlear implant simulations in english, it has been shown that 6 to 7 frequency bands would be sufficient to optimally represent vocoded speech.
However, research on music perception in cochlear implanted listeners sheds light on potential limits associated with these results. Performance observed on vocoded signal material in normal-hearing listeners as well as in CI users is systematically better for speech signals than for music.
Our aim is to compare statistical properties of natural music signals with previous work on speech in order to evaluate their respective contributions to this theoretical proposal.
Communications
You may download the poster from our presentation at the SpIN 2023 workshop:
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Duniec, A., Crouzet, O. & Delais-Roussarie, E. (2023). Principal Components Analysis of amplitude envelopes from spectral channels: Comparison between music and speech. SpIN 2023 - Speech in Noise Workshop, 12th-13th January 2023, Split, Croatia. (Download the poster presentation)
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Duniec, A., Crouzet, O., & Delais-Roussarie, E. (2022) Analyse Factorielle de signaux musicaux : comparaison avec les données de parole dans la perspective de l'hypothèse de codage efficace.. Proc. XXXIVe Journées d'Études sur la Parole -- JEP 2022, 712-720, doi:10.21437/JEP.2022-75.
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Crouzet, O., Duniec, A. & Delais-Roussarie E. (2022). Principal Components Analysis of amplitude envelopes from spectral channels: A preliminary comparison between music and speech. SpIN 2022 - Speech in Noise Workshop, 20th-21st June 2022, Groningen, NL (on-line). (Download the poster presentation)
This project is funded by the RFI-Ouest Industries Créatives (RFI-OIC, Région Pays de la Loire) & Nantes Université.
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