SOUND PAGE

Scott Bradley, Ph.D.

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Pure Tones

500 Hz
1000 Hz
2000 Hz
4000 Hz
6000 Hz

Periodic Complex Noises (square waves)

125 Hz fundamental
250 Hz fundamental
500 Hz fundamental
2000 Hz fundamental

Aperiodic Complex Noises

White Noise
500 Hz center frequency
2000 Hz center frequency

Synthetic Vowels

/ i /
"ah" (schwa)
/ u /

Masking, Reverberation and Non-Linearities

100 msec delay
1500 - 1000 Hz difference tone
Masking 1000 Hz tone with 1000 Hz NBN

Filters

 
unfiltered speech
low-pass filter
high-pass filter
bandpass filter
ear canal resonance

Samples of Auditory Processing Disorder Tests

 
uncompressed speech
60% compression
filtered speech (800 Hz cutoff)
unifiltered speech
speech in noise (s/n=3 dB)

dichotic stentences

(sent 1 - sent 2 - dichotic)

binaural fusion

(low -high - both - original)


Delayed Auditory Feedback and Pitch Shifting

 

 

DAF - 200 msec

Pitch Shifting - 2 1/2 octaves

 

Categorical Perception Example (effect of lengthening a vowel for voice perception)