Signal Processing Application Brief
CUNY
Affiliation
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Description
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has the
largest academic program in the world in the speech and hearing
sciences.
Location
New York, NY
Speech Processing
The Problem
In the past, students of speech and hearing had to become familiar only
with tape recorders, signal generators, amplifiers, oscilloscopes,
sound spectrographs, and the occasional tape splice. Today, they also
have to become competent in the digital analysis, storage, and
processing of speech. A thorough grounding in these concepts requires
a background in math and engineering, but most students come from
fields such as audiology and speech pathology.
Technical Software Tools for Non-Techs
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) is the
largest academic program in the world in the speech and hearing
sciences, with a current enrollment of about 60 students. Dr. Arthur
Boothroyd, Distinguished Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at
CUNY, often comes up against the problem of having to provide his
non-technical students with technical tools. He wants to be able to
provide his students with a software environment that is visually
oriented, computationally powerful, and easy to learn.