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Information theory

A signal take on speech

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Approaches that abandon traditional speech categories offer promise for developing statistical descriptions that encapsulate how speech conveys information. Grandparents would be among the beneficiaries.

It goes without saying that speech carries information, but what are the basic elements of the code? Which elements carry the most information? Or, alternatively, can speech be broken down into features that are equally informative, and, if so, what would those be?

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  1. Michael S. Lewicki is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7071, USA. michael.lewicki@case.edu,

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Lewicki, M. A signal take on speech. Nature 466, 821–822 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466821a

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