Join classifiers

Another angle on the problem of why acoustic measures and perception correlate so badly is to consider whether the notion of a join cost is really the correct formulation in 

Hgure 16.8 (a) The normal formulation whereby the relationship between objective distance and perceptual distance is hnear. (b) The use of floor and ceding values, which say that beyond a threshold aU distances are perceptually equivalent. Between these values the relationship is linear, (c) The situation in which the linear region is negligibly small, meaning that the join cost function effectively becomes a join classifier categorising every join as either good or bad . 

A more extreme view is to consider the middle region very small, such that we take the view that imits either j oin together well (we can t hear the join) or don t (we can hear the join). Then, the join cost becomes a function that returns a binary value. Another way of stating this is that the join function is not returning a cost at all, but is in fact a classifier, which simply returns true if two units will join and false if they don t. To the best of our knowledge Pantazis et al. [345] is the only published study that has examined this approach in detail. The authors of that study asked listeners to state whether they could hear a join or not, and used this to buUd a classifier that made a decision on the basis of acoustic features. Pantazis et al. used a harmonic model as the acoustic representation (see Section 14.4.2) and Fisher s linear discriminant as the classifier [45], [160], but in essence any features or classifier would be amenable to this approach. 

As witii all approaches that directly use perceptual evidence, the amount of data available for training is often very limited due to the high cost of collection. It is possible, however, to consider classifiers that do not rely on the making of human judgments. This sequence join classifier has a similar philosophy to the probabihstic sequence join function. We use the fact that our entire speech corpus is composed of large amounts of naturally occurring perfect joins , since every single example of two fiames found side by side is an example of such. Therefore we have three situations. 

Two frames that occurred naturally and therefore form a good join. 

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The purpose of the join function is to tell us how well two units will join together when concatenated. In most approaches this function returns a cost, such that we usually talk about join costs. Other formulations are however possible, including the join classifier, which returns true or false, and the join probability, which returns the probability that two units will be found in sequence. 

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