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Stevens, S. S., & Volkmann, J. (1940). The relation of pitch to frequency: A revised scale. The American Journal of Psychology, 53(3), 329-353 indicate that it was Stevens, Volkmann, and Newman in 1936 that named the unit for the scale Mel

In the 1930s, Stevens and Volkmann showed that our perception of pitch isn't linear - the mel scale was born! This perceptual scale is now fundamental to speech processing and voice technology.

🎵 Foundation of modern speech recognition systems

#SpeechScience #Perception

"speech perception...enormous variability...acoustic signal. Yet listeners appear able to move beyond this surface variability and retrieve a level of representation...moreover, this is done with apparent case" Elman & McClelland (1986). Exploiting Lawful Variability In the Speech Wave Psych. Press

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Researchers discovered that we don't produce speech sounds in isolation - each sound is influenced by neighboring sounds. This 'coarticulation' makes speech production efficient but recognition challenging!

🔬 Key insight for speech perception research

#SpeechScience #Production

Researchers discovered that we don't produce speech sounds in isolation - each sound is influenced by neighboring sounds. This 'coarticulation' makes speech production efficient but recognition challenging!

🔬 Key insight for speech perception research

#SpeechScience #Production