Speech segregation: problems and perspectives
Chris Darwin
(University of Sussex)

The talk will first discuss how the hierarchical nature sound sources relates to the problem of grouping speech sounds and the nature of the contraints that might appropriately be applied at different levels. It will then move on to look in more detail at how spatial cues are used in the organisation of speech sounds, including both problems of simultaneous and sequential organisation and in determining the continuity of complex sounds.

Relevant material:

Darwin, C. J. & Hukin, R. W. (1999). Auditory objects of attention: the role of interaural time-differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 25, 617-629. (pdf)
Darwin, C. J. & Hukin, R. W. (2000). Effects of reverberation on spatial, prosodic and vocal-tract size cues to selective attention. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108, 335-342. (pdf)
Darwin, C. J., Akeroyd, M. A. & Hukin, R. W. (2002). Binaural factors in auditory continuity. In (Ed). Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Auditory Display, July 2-5, 2002 (pp. 259-262). Kyoto, Japan. (pdf)