Nature Communications (May 2018)

Inharmonic speech reveals the role of harmonicity in the cocktail party problem

  • Sara Popham,
  • Dana Boebinger,
  • Dan P. W. Ellis,
  • Hideki Kawahara,
  • Josh H. McDermott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04551-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Harmonicity is associated with a single sound source and may be a useful cue with which to segregate the speech of multiple talkers. Here the authors introduce a method for perturbing the constituent frequencies of speech and show that violating harmonicity degrades intelligibility of speech mixtures.