Neural representation of pitch is influenced by lifelong experiences with music and language at both cortical and subcortical levels of processing. The aim of this article is to determine whether neural plasticity for pitch representation at the level of the brainstem is dependent upon specific dimensions of pitch contours that commonly occur as part of a native listener's language experience. ...

Linguistic and musical pitch provide an analytic window to evaluate how neural representations of important pitch attributes of a sound undergo transformation from early sensory to later cognitive stages of processing in the human brain, and how pitch-relevant experience shapes these representations. These pitch attributes are shaped differentially depending on their functional relevance to a l...

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for pitch modification. The linear prediction residual is obtained from pitch synchronous frames by inverse filtering the speech signal. Then Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is applied on these pitch synchronous frames. Based on the desired factor of pitch modification, the dimension of the DCT vector is changed by truncation or zero padding, and then...

Hodgson, G. A., and Whiteley, H. J. (1970). Brit. J. industr. Med., 27, 160-166. Personal susceptibility to pitch. During the years 1957 to 1963, 59 cases of hyperplastic squamous lesions were referred to us from a local patent fuel works where ovoids were made by fusing coal dust and pitch together by steam heat. We carried out a survey of all the personnel exposed to the pitch hazard and at t...

Do the languages that people speak affect the way they think about musical pitch? Here we compared pitch representations in native speakers of Dutch and Farsi. Dutch speakers describe pitches as „high‟ (hoog) and „low‟ (laag), but Farsi speakers describe high-frequency pitches as „thin‟ (naazok) and low-frequency pitches as „thick‟ (koloft). Differences in language were reflected in differences...

Pitch detection has important applications in areas of automatic speech recognition such as prosody detection, tonal language transcription, and general feature augmentation. In this paper we describe Pitcher, a new pitch tracking algorithm that correlates spectral information with a dictionary of waveforms each of which is designed to match signals with a given pitch value. We apply dynamic pr...

Numerous experiments show that space and musical pitch are closely linked in people's minds. However, the exact nature of space-pitch associations and their neuronal underpinnings are not well understood. In an fMRI experiment we investigated different types of spatial representations that may underlie musical pitch. Participants judged stimuli that varied in spatial height in both the visual a...

In order to synthesize natural-sounding Japanese phonetic words, a novel VCV-concatenation synthesis with an advanced word database is proposed. The word database consists of VCVbalanced phonetic words which are uttered forcibly in type-0 and type-1 pitch accents. The advantage of using the advanced word database is that a variety of VCV-segments with the same phonetic chains and the different ...