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The effects of vocoder filter configuration on tactual perception of speech
R E Eilers1, O Ozdamar, D K Oller
1Department of Psychology, University of Miami, FL 33101.
Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Perception of synthetic speech continua through the sense of touch and audition was compared utilizing a 32-channel spectrally-oriented electrocutaneous vocoder display and standard auditory psychophysical procedures. Perception of a consonantal and a vocalic continuum was evaluated utilizing three vocoder filter configurations: logarithmic, linear, and average (geometric mean of logarithmic and linear). Results indicated a close correspondence between tactual and auditory discrimination and identification for the vowel (/a/-/e/) and the consonant (/sta/-/sa/) continuum regardless of the filter characteristics.