> The bird speaks in five different voices, some might sound like a robot t=
o you. Some samples might have had automobile noise removed because some li=
steners can not concentrate on the speech through noise.
I imagine those were the ones I hated to hear.
> There is a type of "low-frequency" speech with high harmonic content that=
I term "purr speech." The words are not discernable by people who have no =
training in decoding such speech.
>
> I appreciate that nature recordists make aesthetic recordings. My work is=
researching intelligent speech by talking birds; I am ultimately intereste=
d in recordings that people understand. What do you suggest to make recordi=
ngs more intelligible that do not have much processing? Some of the samples=
you heard have no processing.
High and low-pass filtering and some parametric EQ can do a lot without doi=
ng too much damage.
-Dan
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