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There is at present a strong demand from colleagues working in Automatic Speech Recognition for a “better” representation of the speech signal as input for their systems. After the adoption of the psychoacoustical Mel scale, some of them hope that the knowledge of a “truer” internal auditory representation of the speech signal could reduce the variability they have to handle, and/or make more salient some useful cues for phonetic identification.
Many thanks to Martine Boyer for having been a long-suffering subject and to Francois Lonchamp for his help in writing the English version of this paper.
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Sorin, C. (1987). Psychophysical Representation of Stop Consonant and Temporal Masking in Speech. In: Schouten, M.E.H. (eds) The Psychophysics of Speech Perception. NATO ASI Series, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3629-4_19
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