tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post2127661323333119154..comments2024-03-13T09:47:40.487+00:00Comments on Cockpit Conversation: Things You Don't Know You KnowAviatrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-24388120867723036642011-04-25T04:40:18.999+00:002011-04-25T04:40:18.999+00:00We don't mention that television show on this ...<i><br />We don't mention that television show on this blog.<br /></i><br /><br />Ok. I won't watch it then. I'll delete it from my queue. <br />I have a bad feeling about this chewie. <br /><br />(PS I still hate linguistics)amulbunny's random thoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621932038345682056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-14012986871892783962011-04-24T20:02:10.021+00:002011-04-24T20:02:10.021+00:00Off topic but was just listening to this on the ra...Off topic but was just listening to <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010fd8g" rel="nofollow">this</a> on the radio & thought of you - obituary of the first (indeed only) female Concorde pilot.townmousehttp://cityexile.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-41163653672586056102011-04-24T17:05:05.897+00:002011-04-24T17:05:05.897+00:00Could it be this paper?
AUDIO-VISUAL SYNTHESIS OF...Could it be this paper?<br /><br />AUDIO-VISUAL SYNTHESIS OF TALKING FACES FROM SPEECH PRODUCTION CORRELATES<br />Takaaki Kuratate, Kevin G. Munhal, Philip E. Rubin, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, and Hani Yehia<br /><br />I haven't read the whole thing yet but one thing it mentions early on is "enhancement of speech intelligibility provided by the visual channel in poor acoustic conditions". I saw the opposite effect on intelligibility with a poor visual channel when I was a kid. Specifically, I have quite a few deaf and hearing impaired relatives, and they found it harder to understand the audio track on a cartoon if they were looking at the screen, because the cartoon faces were moving all wrong.Rhondahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11171628629488905916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-73133565325505391162011-04-24T05:37:11.066+00:002011-04-24T05:37:11.066+00:00We don't mention that television show on this ...We don't mention that television show on this blog.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-38088209034450595412011-04-24T03:46:29.458+00:002011-04-24T03:46:29.458+00:00OT: do you get the Nat Geo channel? They have anot...OT: do you get the Nat Geo channel? They have another show about flying called "Ice Pilots-NWT" featuring Buffalo Air.<br /><br />You weren't kidding about animal names were you?<br /><br />I hated linguistics. More than statistics. I much preferred good old grammar and diagramming and knowing how sentences were put together. <br /><br />Have a nice holiday weekend.amulbunny's random thoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621932038345682056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-32619962735981220302011-04-24T02:09:19.828+00:002011-04-24T02:09:19.828+00:00I haven't turned comment moderation on for new...I haven't turned comment moderation on for new posts, but quite a few comments are being held back as possible spam lately. If your comment doesn't appear but I have made a comment myself since, send me an e-mail and I'll shake your comment loose from the spam filter.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-26107842365891034322011-04-24T01:54:23.958+00:002011-04-24T01:54:23.958+00:00The McGurk Effect is that when you hear a sound, t...<i>The McGurk Effect is that when you hear a sound, the visual signal influences how you perceive it. So given ambiguous audio with a video of a person pronouncing a bilabial consonant, we will "hear" a b or p.</i><br /><br />Where it gets even cooler is that sometimes, when our eyes and ears give us conflicting information, we actually split the difference between them. My favourite illustration of the McGurk effect is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFPtc8BVdJk" rel="nofollow">this video by Arnt Maasø</a>. The audio is saying /ba/, but the video is mouthing /ga/. If you listen to it with your eyes closed, you can hear perfectly well that there's a bilabial stop at the beginning, but if you listen and watch at the same time, then your eyes tell you that it can't be a /b/, because the guy's lips aren't closed. So we hear /da/, which is acoustically somewhere between /ba/ and /ga/, as our brains try to reconcile the image with the sound. (YMMV; not everyone hears /da/ exactly, but everyone I've shown this to hears something different when they look than when they listen without looking.)Q. Pheevrhttp://q-pheevr.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.com