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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Année : 2014

Optimizing pulse-spreading harmonic complexes to minimize intrinsic modulations after auditory filtering

Gaston Hilkhuysen
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All signals, except sine waves, exhibit intrinsic modulations that affect perceptual masking. Reducing the physical intrinsic modulations of a broadband signal does not necessarily have a perceptual impact: auditory filtering can reintroduce modulations. Broadband signals with low intrinsic modulations after auditory filtering have proved difficult to design. To that end, this paper introduces a class of signals termed pulse-spreading harmonic complexes (PSHCs). PSHCs are generated by summing harmonically related components with such a phase that the resulting waveform exhibits pulses equally-spaced within a repetition period. The order of a PSHC determines its pulse rate. Simulations with a gamma-tone filterbank suggest an optimal pulse rate at which, after auditory filtering, the PSHC's intrinsic modulations are lowest. These intrinsic modulations appear to be less than those for broadband pseudo-random (PR) or low-noise (LN) noise. This hypothesis was tested in a modulation-detection experiment involving five modulation rates ranging from 8 to 128 Hz and both broadband and narrowband carriers using PSHCs, PR, and LN noise. PSHC showed the lowest thresholds of all broadband signals. Results imply that optimized PSHCs exhibit less intrinsic modulations after auditory filtering than any other broadband signal previously considered.
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hal-01081994 , version 1 (12-11-2014)

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Gaston Hilkhuysen, Olivier Macherey. Optimizing pulse-spreading harmonic complexes to minimize intrinsic modulations after auditory filtering. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2014, 136 (3), pp.1281-1294. ⟨10.1121/1.4890642⟩. ⟨hal-01081994⟩
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