Growing evidence shows that individuals consistently match auditory pitch with visual size. For instance, high-pitched sounds are perceptually associated with smaller visual stimuli, whereas low-pitched sounds with larger ones. The present study explores whether this crossmodal correspondence, reported so far for perceptual processing, also modulates motor planning. To address this issue, we ca...

bubble columns are gas- liquid contactors that are widely used in chemical and bio- chemical industries. high mixing that result in high heat and mass transfer rates are amongst their advantages. heat transfer in a bubble column having a bundle of heaters investigated and the variation of heat transfer coefficient with variation in heaters pitch to diameter ratios in a bundle of heaters reporte...

Under normal conditions, the acoustic pitch percept of a pure tone is determined mainly by the tonotopic place of the stimulation along the cochlea. Unlike acoustic stimulation, electric stimulation of a cochlear implant (CI) allows for the direct manipulation of the place of stimulation in human subjects. CI sound processors analyze the range of frequencies needed for speech perception and all...

longevity of osseointegrated implants are intensely influenced by biomechanical factors. control of these factors prevents mechanical complications, which include fracture of screws, components, or materials veneering the framework. in this study, the impact of length and threads pitch of dental implants on the stress distribution and maximum von mises stress in implant-abutment complex and jaw...

AN ALGORITHM FOR LOCATING FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY (F0) MARKERS IN SPEECH Princy Dikshit Old Dominion University, December 2004 Director: Dr. Stephen A. Zahorian Speech has been the principal form of human communication since it began to evolve at least one hundred thousand years ago. Speech is produced by vibrations of the vocal cords. The rate of vibration of the cords is called fundamental freq...

Determining pitch accents in a sentence is a key task for a textto-speech (TTS) system. We describe some methods for pitch accent assignment which make use of features that contain information about a complete phrase or sentence, in contrast to most previous work which has focused on using features local to a syllable or word. Pitch accent prediction is performed using three different technique...

WITH AN ANN COST FUNCTION S. Harbeck A. Kie ling R. Kompe H. Niemann E. N oth Univ. Erlangen-N urnberg, Lehrstuhl f ur Mustererkennung (Inf. 5), Martensstr. 3, 91058 Erlangen, F.R. of Germany e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT In this paper, a new pitch synchronous F0-algorithm is described. The task of detecting pitch periods in the speech signal is solved with a search fo...

In this paper we introduce a new approach for realtime multiple pitch observation of musical instruments. The proposed algorithm is quite different from others in the literature both in its purpose and approach. It is destined not for continuous multiple f0 recognition but rather for projection of the ongoing spectrum to learned pitch templates. The decomposition algorithm on the other hand, do...

Das diesem Bericht zugrundeliegende Forschungsvorhaben wurde mit Mitteln des Bundesministers f ur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie unter dem F orderkennzeichen 01 IV 102 H/0 gef ordert. Die Verantwortung f ur den Inhalt dieser Arbeit liegt bei den Autoren. ABSTRACT In this paper, a new pitch synchronous F0-algorithm is described. The task of detecting pitch periods in the speech...