Sine wave speech

Andrew Patterson · Post by **Andrew Patterson** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:03 pm

I recently came across an article on "sine wave speech" in the New Scientist. It is a sort of mathematical extraction of real speech which becomes intelligible only after listening to the unaltered speech recording although apparently you can be trained to understand them. I have been wanting to find out more about this having heard a demonstration on the TV a long time ago but didn't know what it was called. I was wondering if you think it or something similar might be useful in isolating a particular aspect of speech sounds such as stress or intonation. I suspect highly vocoded speech (such as the dalek voice) only more so might be more suitable.

Anyway, here is a link that will give you a demonstration of what I'm banging on about:

Could anyone make out the nursery rhyme in the link, by the way?

http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Chris_Darwin/SWS/

Andrew Patterson · Post by **Andrew Patterson** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:05 pm

I've only just managed to work out the words myself.

It might be better described as a fairytale than a nursery rhyme.