At 08:40 AM 9/30/2010, you wrote:
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> > 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.
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>I imagine those were the ones I hated to hear.
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> > 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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