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Re: Parrot Communication

Subject: Re: Parrot Communication
From: "Doug Von Gausig" dougvg
Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:25 am ((PDT))
At 08:40 AM 9/30/2010, you wrote:
>
>
> > The bird speaks in five different voices, some might sound like a robot=

> to you. Some samples might have had automobile noise removed because some=

> listeners 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
> interested in recordings that people understand. What do you suggest to
> make recordings 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
>doing too much damage.
>
>-Dan

Also most birds "talk" too fast for humans to understand. Slowing them down=

(through resampling) can often bring the "words" and "syntax" into better
focus for slow-processors like us! This works well with smaller birds,
unsure about Macaws.

Doug
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