Example: artificial_vowels (hears)

This example implements the artificial vowels from Culling, J. F. and Summerfield, Q. (1995a). “Perceptual segregation of concurrent speech sounds: absence of across-frequency grouping by common interaural delay” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98, 785-797.

from brian import *
from brian.hears import *

duration = 409.6*ms
width = 150*Hz/2
samplerate = 10*kHz

set_default_samplerate(samplerate)

centres = [225*Hz, 625*Hz, 975*Hz, 1925*Hz]
vowels = {
    'ee':[centres[0], centres[3]],
    'ar':[centres[1], centres[2]],
    'oo':[centres[0], centres[2]],
    'er':[centres[1], centres[3]]
    }

def generate_vowel(vowel):
    vowel = vowels[vowel]
    x = whitenoise(duration)
    y = fft(asarray(x).flatten())
    f = fftfreq(len(x), 1/samplerate)
    I = zeros(len(f), dtype=bool)
    for cf in vowel:
        I = I|((abs(f)<cf+width)&(abs(f)>cf-width))
    I = -I
    y[I] = 0
    x = ifft(y)
    return Sound(x.real)

v1 = generate_vowel('ee').ramp()
v2 = generate_vowel('ar').ramp()
v3 = generate_vowel('oo').ramp()
v4 = generate_vowel('er').ramp()

for s in [v1, v2, v3, v4]:
    s.play(normalise=True, sleep=True)

s1 = Sound((v1, v2))
#s1.play(normalise=True, sleep=True)

s2 = Sound((v3, v4))
#s2.play(normalise=True, sleep=True)

v1.save('mono_sound.wav')
s1.save('stereo_sound.wav')

subplot(211)
plot(v1.times, v1)
subplot(212)
v1.spectrogram()
show()